ISO IEC 14882 2011 Programming Languages C++ N3376 - Multi - ISO. Working Draft, Standard for Programming Language C++
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Document Number: Date: Revises: Reply to:
N3376 2012-02-28 N3337 Stefanus Du Toit Intel Corporation [email protected]
Working Draft, Standard for Programming Language C++
Note: this is an early draft. It’s known to be incomplet and incorrekt, and it has lots of ba d formatting.
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1 General 1.1 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 Normative references . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 Terms and definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.4 Implementation compliance . . . . . . . . 1.5 Structure of this International Standard . 1.6 Syntax notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.7 The C++ memory model . . . . . . . . . . 1.8 The C++ object model . . . . . . . . . . . 1.9 Program execution . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.10 Multi-threaded executions and data races 1.11 Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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2 Lexical conventions 2.1 Separate translation . . . . 2.2 Phases of translation . . . . 2.3 Character sets . . . . . . . . 2.4 Trigraph sequences . . . . . 2.5 Preprocessing tokens . . . . 2.6 Alternative tokens . . . . . 2.7 Tokens . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.8 Comments . . . . . . . . . . 2.9 Header names . . . . . . . . 2.10 Preprocessing numbers . . . 2.11 Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . 2.12 Keywords . . . . . . . . . . 2.13 Operators and punctuators 2.14 Literals . . . . . . . . . . .
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3 Basic 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10
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concepts Declarations and definitions One definition rule . . . . . Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . Name lookup . . . . . . . . Program and linkage . . . . Start and termination . . . Storage duration . . . . . . Object lifetime . . . . . . . Types . . . . . . . . . . . . Lvalues and rvalues . . . . .
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Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 Standard conversions 4.1 Lvalue-to-rvalue conversion . . 4.2 Array-to-pointer conversion . . 4.3 Function-to-pointer conversion . 4.4 Qualification conversions . . . . 4.5 Integral promotions . . . . . . . 4.6 Floating point promotion . . . 4.7 Integral conversions . . . . . . . 4.8 Floating point conversions . . . 4.9 Floating-integral conversions . . 4.10 Pointer conversions . . . . . . . 4.11 Pointer to member conversions 4.12 Boolean conversions . . . . . . 4.13 Integer conversion rank . . . . .
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5 Expressions 5.1 Primary expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.2 Postfix expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.3 Unary expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.4 Explicit type conversion (cast notation) . . . . . 5.5 Pointer-to-member operators . . . . . . . . . . . 5.6 Multiplicative operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.7 Additive operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.8 Shift operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.9 Relational operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.10 Equality operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.11 Bitwise AND operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.12 Bitwise exclusive OR operator . . . . . . . . . . . 5.13 Bitwise inclusive OR operator . . . . . . . . . . . 5.14 Logical AND operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.15 Logical OR operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.16 Conditional operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.17 Assignment and compound assignment operators 5.18 Comma operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.19 Constant expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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6 Statements 6.1 Labeled statement . . . . . . 6.2 Expression statement . . . . . 6.3 Compound statement or block 6.4 Selection statements . . . . . 6.5 Iteration statements . . . . . 6.6 Jump statements . . . . . . . 6.7 Declaration statement . . . . 6.8 Ambiguity resolution . . . . .
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7 Declarations 133 7.1 Specifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 7.2 Enumeration declarations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Contents
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8 Declarators 8.1 Type names . . . . . . 8.2 Ambiguity resolution . 8.3 Meaning of declarators 8.4 Function definitions . . 8.5 Initializers . . . . . . .
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9 Classes 9.1 Class names . . . . . . . 9.2 Class members . . . . . 9.3 Member functions . . . . 9.4 Static members . . . . . 9.5 Unions . . . . . . . . . . 9.6 Bit-fields . . . . . . . . . 9.7 Nested class declarations 9.8 Local class declarations 9.9 Nested type names . . .
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10 Derived classes 10.1 Multiple base classes . 10.2 Member name lookup 10.3 Virtual functions . . . 10.4 Abstract classes . . . .
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11 Member access control 11.1 Access specifiers . . . . . . . . . 11.2 Accessibility of base classes and 11.3 Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.4 Protected member access . . . . 11.5 Access to virtual functions . . . 11.6 Multiple access . . . . . . . . . 11.7 Nested classes . . . . . . . . . .
12 Special member functions 12.1 Constructors . . . . . . . . . . . 12.2 Temporary objects . . . . . . . . 12.3 Conversions . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.4 Destructors . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5 Free store . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.6 Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.7 Construction and destruction . . 12.8 Copying and moving class objects 12.9 Inheriting constructors . . . . . .
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13 Overloading 273 13.1 Overloadable declarations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
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14 Templates 14.1 Template parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.2 Names of template specializations . . . . . 14.3 Template arguments . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.4 Type equivalence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.5 Template declarations . . . . . . . . . . . 14.6 Name resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.7 Template instantiation and specialization 14.8 Function template specializations . . . . .
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15 Exception handling 15.1 Throwing an exception . . . . 15.2 Constructors and destructors 15.3 Handling an exception . . . . 15.4 Exception specifications . . . 15.5 Special functions . . . . . . .
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16 Preprocessing directives 16.1 Conditional inclusion . . 16.2 Source file inclusion . . . 16.3 Macro replacement . . . 16.4 Line control . . . . . . . 16.5 Error directive . . . . . 16.6 Pragma directive . . . . 16.7 Null directive . . . . . . 16.8 Predefined macro names 16.9 Pragma operator . . . .
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17 Library introduction 17.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.2 The C standard library . . . . . . . . 17.3 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.4 Additional definitions . . . . . . . . . 17.5 Method of description (Informative) 17.6 Library-wide requirements . . . . . .
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18 Language support library 18.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.2 Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.3 Implementation properties . . . 18.4 Integer types . . . . . . . . . . 18.5 Start and termination . . . . . 18.6 Dynamic memory management 18.7 Type identification . . . . . . . 18.8 Exception handling . . . . . . .
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21 Strings library 21.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.2 Character traits . . . . . . . . . . 21.3 String classes . . . . . . . . . . . 21.4 Class template basic_string . . 21.5 Numeric conversions . . . . . . . 21.6 Hash support . . . . . . . . . . . 21.7 Null-terminated sequence utilities
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22 Localization library 22.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22.2 Header synopsis . . . 22.3 Locales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22.4 Standard locale categories . . 22.5 Standard code conversion facets 22.6 C library locales . . . . . . . .
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25 Algorithms library 25.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.2 Non-modifying sequence operations 25.3 Mutating sequence operations . . . 25.4 Sorting and related operations . . . 25.5 C library algorithms . . . . . . . .
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27 Input/output library 27.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.2 Iostreams requirements . . . . 27.3 Forward declarations . . . . . 27.4 Standard iostream objects . . 27.5 Iostreams base classes . . . . 27.6 Stream buffers . . . . . . . . . 27.7 Formatting and manipulators 27.8 String-based streams . . . . . 27.9 File-based streams . . . . . .
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A Grammar summary A.1 Keywords . . . . . . . . . A.2 Lexical conventions . . . . A.3 Basic concepts . . . . . . . A.4 Expressions . . . . . . . . A.5 Statements . . . . . . . . A.6 Declarations . . . . . . . . A.7 Declarators . . . . . . . . A.8 Classes . . . . . . . . . . . A.9 Derived classes . . . . . . A.10 Special member functions A.11 Overloading . . . . . . . . A.12 Templates . . . . . . . . . A.13 Exception handling . . . . A.14 Preprocessing directives .
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D.10 auto_ptr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1218 D.11 Violating exception-specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1221 E Universal character names for identifier characters 1222 E.1 Ranges of characters allowed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1222 E.2 Ranges of characters disallowed initially . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1222 F Cross references
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Index of grammar productions
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Index of library names
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Index of implementation-defined behavior
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Trigraph sequences . . . . . . . Alternative tokens . . . . . . . Identifiers with special meaning Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . Alternative representations . . Types of integer constants . . . Escape sequences . . . . . . . . String literal concatenations . .
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Relationship between operator and function call notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Conversions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
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Library categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C++ library headers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C++ headers for C library facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C++ headers for freestanding implementations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EqualityComparable requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LessThanComparable requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DefaultConstructible requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MoveConstructible requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CopyConstructible requirements (in addition to MoveConstructible) MoveAssignable requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CopyAssignable requirements (in addition to MoveAssignable) . . . . Destructible requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NullablePointer requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hash requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Descriptive variable definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allocator requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Language support library summary Header synopsis . . . . Header synopsis . . . . Header synopsis . . . . . Header synopsis . . . . Header synopsis . . . . Header synopsis . . . . Header synopsis . . . Header synopsis . . . . Header synopsis . . . Header synopsis . . . . Header synopsis . . . . .
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Diagnostics library summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456 Header synopsis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460 Header synopsis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
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General utilities library summary . . . . . . . Header synopsis . . . . . . . . . . Header synopsis . . . . . . . . . . Primary type category predicates . . . . . . . Composite type category predicates . . . . . Type property predicates . . . . . . . . . . . Type property queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . Type relationship predicates . . . . . . . . . . Const-volatile modifications . . . . . . . . . . Reference modifications . . . . . . . . . . . . Sign modifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Array modifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pointer modifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . Expressions used to perform ratio arithmetic Clock requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Header synopsis . . . . . . . . . . .
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Strings library summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601 Character traits requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602 basic_string(const Allocator&) effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615 basic_string(const basic_string&) effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616 basic_string(const basic_string&, size_type, size_type, const Allocator&) effects . 616 basic_string(const charT*, size_type, const Allocator&) effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616 basic_string(const charT*, const Allocator&) effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617 basic_string(size_t, charT, const Allocator&) effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617 basic_string(const basic_string&, const Allocator&) and basic_string(basic_string&&, const Allocator&) effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618 operator=(const basic_string&) effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618 operator=(const basic_string&&) effects . . . . . . . . . . . . 618 compare() results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633 Potential mbstate_t data races . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642 Header synopsis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642 Header synopsis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643 Header synopsis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643 Header synopsis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643 Header synopsis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644 Header synopsis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644
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Localization library summary Locale category facets . . . . Required specializations . . . do_in/do_out result values . do_unshift result values . . Integer conversions . . . . . . Length modifier . . . . . . . . Integer conversions . . . . . .
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Floating-point conversions . . . Length modifier . . . . . . . . . Numeric conversions . . . . . . Fill padding . . . . . . . . . . . do_get_date effects . . . . . . Header synopsis . . Potential setlocale data races
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Containers library summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Container requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reversible container requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Optional container operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allocator-aware container requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sequence container requirements (in addition to container) . . . . . . . Optional sequence container operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associative container requirements (in addition to container) . . . . . . Unordered associative container requirements (in addition to container)
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Iterators library summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Relations among iterator categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Iterator requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Input iterator requirements (in addition to Iterator) . . . . . . . . . . . . . Output iterator requirements (in addition to Iterator) . . . . . . . . . . . . Forward iterator requirements (in addition to input iterator) . . . . . . . . Bidirectional iterator requirements (in addition to forward iterator) . . . . . Random access iterator requirements (in addition to bidirectional iterator)
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112 Algorithms library summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837 113 Header synopsis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873 114 115 116 117 118 119 120
Numerics library summary . . . . . . . . . . . . Seed sequence requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . Uniform random number generator requirements Random number engine requirements . . . . . . Random number distribution requirements . . . Header synopsis . . . . . . . . . . . . . Header synopsis . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Input/output library summary fmtflags effects . . . . . . . . fmtflags constants . . . . . . iostate effects . . . . . . . . . openmode effects . . . . . . . . seekdir effects . . . . . . . . . Position type requirements . . basic_ios::init() effects . . basic_ios::copyfmt() effects seekoff positioning . . . . . . newoff values . . . . . . . . . . File open modes . . . . . . . . seekoff effects . . . . . . . . .
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134 Header synopsis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1047 135 Header synopsis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1048 136 137 138 139
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Regular expressions library summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Regular expression traits class requirements . . . . . . . . . . syntax_option_type effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . regex_constants::match_flag_type effects when obtaining tainer sequence [first,last). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . error_type values in the C locale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . match_results assignment operator effects . . . . . . . . . . Effects of regex_match algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Effects of regex_search algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Atomics library summary . . . . atomic integral typedefs . . . . . atomic typedefs . Atomic arithmetic computations
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148 Thread support library summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1115 149 150 151 152 153
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This International Standard specifies requirements for implementations of the C++ programming language. The first such requirement is that they implement the language, and so this International Standard also defines C++. Other requirements and relaxations of the first requirement appear at various places within this International Standard. C++ is a general purpose programming language based on the C programming language as described in ISO/IEC 9899:1999 Programming languages — C (hereinafter referred to as the C standard). In addition to the facilities provided by C, C++ provides additional data types, classes, templates, exceptions, namespaces, operator overloading, function name overloading, references, free store management operators, and additional library facilities.
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The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies. — Ecma International, ECMAScript Language Specification, Standard Ecma-262, third edition, 1999. — ISO/IEC 2382 (all parts), Information technology — Vocabulary — ISO/IEC 9899:1999, Programming languages — C — ISO/IEC 9899:1999/Cor.1:2001(E), Programming languages — C, Technical Corrigendum 1 — ISO/IEC 9899:1999/Cor.2:2004(E), Programming languages — C, Technical Corrigendum 2 — ISO/IEC 9899:1999/Cor.3:2007(E), Programming languages — C, Technical Corrigendum 3 — ISO/IEC 9945:2003, Information Technology — Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) — ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993, Information technology — Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) — Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane — ISO/IEC TR 19769:2004, Information technology — Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces — Extensions for the programming language C to support new character data types
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The library described in Clause 7 of ISO/IEC 9899:1999 and Clause 7 of ISO/IEC 9899:1999/Cor.1:2001 and Clause 7 of ISO/IEC 9899:1999/Cor.2:2003 is hereinafter called the C standard library.1 The library described in ISO/IEC TR 19769:2004 is hereinafter called the C Unicode TR. The operating system interface described in ISO/IEC 9945:2003 is hereinafter called POSIX . The ECMAScript Language Specification described in Standard Ecma-262 is hereinafter called ECMA-262 . 1) With the qualifications noted in Clauses 18 through 30 and in C.3, the C standard library is a subset of the C++ standard library.
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For the purposes of this document, the following definitions apply. 17.3 defines additional terms that are used only in Clauses 17 through 30 and Annex D. Terms that are used only in a small portion of this International Standard are defined where they are used and italicized where they are defined. 1.3.1 [defns.argument] argument actual argument actual parameter expression in the comma-separated list bounded by the parentheses 1.3.2 [defns.argument.macro] argument actual argument actual parameter sequence of preprocessing tokens in the comma-separated list bounded by the parentheses 1.3.3 argument actual argument actual parameter the operand of throw
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1.3.4 [defns.argument.templ] argument actual argument actual parameter expression, type-id or template-name in the comma-separated list bounded by the angle brackets 1.3.5 [defns.cond.supp] conditionally-supported program construct that an implementation is not required to support [ Note: Each implementation documents all conditionally-supported constructs that it does not support. — end note ] 1.3.6 [defns.diagnostic] diagnostic message message belonging to an implementation-defined subset of the implementation’s output messages 1.3.7 [defns.dynamic.type] dynamic type type of the most derived object (1.8) to which the glvalue denoted by a glvalue expression refers [ Example: if a pointer (8.3.1) p whose static type is “pointer to class B” is pointing to an object of class D, derived from B (Clause 10), the dynamic type of the expression *p is “D.” References (8.3.2) are treated similarly. — end example ] 1.3.8
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1.3.10 [defns.impl.defined] implementation-defined behavior behavior, for a well-formed program construct and correct data, that depends on the implementation and that each implementation documents 1.3.11 implementation limits restrictions imposed upon programs by the implementation
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1.3.12 [defns.locale.specific] locale-specific behavior behavior that depends on local conventions of nationality, culture, and language that each implementation documents 1.3.13 [defns.multibyte] multibyte character sequence of one or more bytes representing a member of the extended character set of either the source or the execution environment [ Note: The extended character set is a superset of the basic character set (2.3). — end note ] 1.3.14 [defns.parameter] parameter formal argument formal parameter object or reference declared as part of a function declaration or definition or in the catch clause of an exception handler that acquires a value on entry to the function or handler 1.3.15 [defns.parameter.macro] parameter formal argument formal parameter identifier from the comma-separated list bounded by the parentheses immediately following the macro name 1.3.16 parameter formal argument formal parameter template-parameter 1.3.17 signature
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[ Note: The implementation is not required to document which behavior occurs. The range of possible behaviors is usually delineated by this International Standard. — end note ] 1.3.26 [defns.well.formed] well-formed program C++ program constructed according to the syntax rules, diagnosable semantic rules, and the One Definition Rule (3.2).
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The set of diagnosable rules consists of all syntactic and semantic rules in this International Standard except for those rules containing an explicit notation that “no diagnostic is required” or which are described as resulting in “undefined behavior.” Although this International Standard states only requirements on C++ implementations, those requirements are often easier to understand if they are phrased as requirements on programs, parts of programs, or execution of programs. Such requirements have the following meaning: — If a program contains no violations of the rules in this International Standard, a conforming implementation shall, within its resource limits, accept and correctly execute2 that program. — If a program contains a violation of any diagnosable rule or an occurrence of a construct described in this Standard as “conditionally-supported” when the implementation does not support that construct, a conforming implementation shall issue at least one diagnostic message. — If a program contains a violation of a rule for which no diagnostic is required, this International Standard places no requirement on implementations with respect to that program.
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Clauses 2 through 16 describe the C++ programming language. That description includes detailed syntactic specifications in a form described in 1.6. For convenience, Annex A repeats all such syntactic specifications. 2) “Correct execution” can include undefined behavior, depending on the data being processed; see 1.3 and 1.9. 3) This documentation also defines implementation-defined behavior; see 1.9.
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In the syntax notation used in this International Standard, syntactic categories are indicated by italic type, and literal words and characters in constant width type. Alternatives are listed on separate lines except in a few cases where a long set of alternatives is marked by the phrase “one of.” If the text of an alternative is too long to fit on a line, the text is continued on subsequent lines indented from the first one. An optional terminal or non-terminal symbol is indicated by the subscript “opt ”, so { expressionopt }
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The fundamental storage unit in the C++ memory model is the byte. A byte is at least large enough to contain any member of the basic execution character set (2.3) and the eight-bit code units of the Unicode UTF-8 encoding form and is composed of a contiguous sequence of bits, the number of which is implementationdefined. The least significant bit is called the low-order bit; the most significant bit is called the high-order bit. The memory available to a C++ program consists of one or more sequences of contiguous bytes. Every byte has a unique address. [ Note: The representation of types is described in 3.9. — end note ] A memory location is either an object of scalar type or a maximal sequence of adjacent bit-fields all having non-zero width. [ Note: Various features of the language, such as references and virtual functions, might involve additional memory locations that are not accessible to programs but are managed by the implementation. — end note ] Two or more threads of execution (1.10) can update and access separate memory locations without interfering with each other. [ Note: Thus a bit-field and an adjacent non-bit-field are in separate memory locations, and therefore can be concurrently updated by two threads of execution without interference. The same applies to two bit-fields, if one is declared inside a nested struct declaration and the other is not, or if the two are separated by a zero-length bit-field declaration, or if they are separated by a non-bit-field declaration. It is not safe to concurrently update two bit-fields in the same struct if all fields between them are also bit-fields of non-zero width. — end note ] [ Example: A structure declared as § 1.7
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The constructs in a C++ program create, destroy, refer to, access, and manipulate objects. An object is a region of storage. [ Note: A function is not an object, regardless of whether or not it occupies storage in the way that objects do. — end note ] An object is created by a definition (3.1), by a new-expression (5.3.4) or by the implementation (12.2) when needed. The properties of an object are determined when the object is created. An object can have a name (Clause 3). An object has a storage duration (3.7) which influences its lifetime (3.8). An object has a type (3.9). The term object type refers to the type with which the object is created. Some objects are polymorphic (10.3); the implementation generates information associated with each such object that makes it possible to determine that object’s type during program execution. For other objects, the interpretation of the values found therein is determined by the type of the expressions (Clause 5) used to access them. Objects can contain other objects, called subobjects. A subobject can be a member subobject (9.2), a base class subobject (Clause 10), or an array element. An object that is not a subobject of any other object is called a complete object. For every object x, there is some object called the complete object of x, determined as follows: — If x is a complete object, then x is the complete object of x. — Otherwise, the complete object of x is the complete object of the (unique) object that contains x.
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The semantic descriptions in this International Standard define a parameterized nondeterministic abstract machine. This International Standard places no requirement on the structure of conforming implementations. In particular, they need not copy or emulate the structure of the abstract machine. Rather, conforming implementations are required to emulate (only) the observable behavior of the abstract machine as explained below.5 Certain aspects and operations of the abstract machine are described in this International Standard as implementation-defined (for example, sizeof(int)). These constitute the parameters of the abstract machine. Each implementation shall include documentation describing its characteristics and behavior in these respects.6 Such documentation shall define the instance of the abstract machine that corresponds to that implementation (referred to as the “corresponding instance” below). Certain other aspects and operations of the abstract machine are described in this International Standard as unspecified (for example, order of evaluation of arguments to a function). Where possible, this International Standard defines a set of allowable behaviors. These define the nondeterministic aspects of the abstract machine. An instance of the abstract machine can thus have more than one possible execution for a given program and a given input. Certain other operations are described in this International Standard as undefined (for example, the effect of attempting to modify a const object). [ Note: This International Standard imposes no requirements on the behavior of programs that contain undefined behavior. — end note ] A conforming implementation executing a well-formed program shall produce the same observable behavior as one of the possible executions of the corresponding instance of the abstract machine with the same program and the same input. However, if any such execution contains an undefined operation, this International Standard places no requirement on the implementation executing that program with that input (not even with regard to operations preceding the first undefined operation). When the processing of the abstract machine is interrupted by receipt of a signal, the values of objects which are neither — of type volatile std::sig_atomic_t nor — lock-free atomic objects (29.4)
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A thread of execution (also known as a thread) is a single flow of control within a program, including the initial invocation of a specific top-level function, and recursively including every function invocation subsequently executed by the thread. [ Note: When one thread creates another, the initial call to the top-level function of the new thread is executed by the new thread, not by the creating thread. — end note ] Every thread in a program can potentially access every object and function in a program.10 Under a hosted implementation, a C++ program can have more than one thread running concurrently. The execution of each thread proceeds as defined by the remainder of this standard. The execution of the entire program consists of an execution of all of its threads. [ Note: Usually the execution can be viewed as an interleaving of all its threads. However, some kinds of atomic operations, for example, allow executions inconsistent with a simple interleaving, as described below. — end note ] Under a freestanding implementation, it is implementation-defined whether a program can have more than one thread of execution. Implementations should ensure that all unblocked threads eventually make progress. [ Note: Standard library functions may silently block on I/O or locks. Factors in the execution environment, including externally-imposed thread priorities, may prevent an implementation from making certain guarantees of forward progress. — end note ] The value of an object visible to a thread T at a particular point is the initial value of the object, a value assigned to the object by T , or a value assigned to the object by another thread, according to the rules below. [ Note: In some cases, there may instead be undefined behavior. Much of this section is motivated by the desire to support atomic operations with explicit and detailed visibility constraints. However, it also implicitly supports a simpler view for more restricted programs. — end note ] Two expression evaluations conflict if one of them modifies a memory location (1.7) and the other one accesses or modifies the same memory location. The library defines a number of atomic operations (Clause 29) and operations on mutexes (Clause 30) that are specially identified as synchronization operations. These operations play a special role in making assignments in one thread visible to another. A synchronization operation on one or more memory locations is either a consume operation, an acquire operation, a release operation, or both an acquire and release operation. A synchronization operation without an associated memory location is a fence and can be either an acquire fence, a release fence, or both an acquire and release fence. In addition, there are relaxed atomic operations, which are not synchronization operations, and atomic read-modify-write operations, which have special characteristics. [ Note: For example, a call that acquires a mutex will perform an acquire operation on the locations comprising the mutex. Correspondingly, a call that releases the same mutex will perform a release operation on those same locations. Informally, performing a release operation on A forces prior side effects on other memory locations to become visible to other threads that later perform a consume or an acquire operation on A. “Relaxed” atomic operations are not synchronization operations even though, like synchronization operations, they cannot contribute to data races. — end note ] All modifications to a particular atomic object M occur in some particular total order, called the modification order of M . If A and B are modifications of an atomic object M and A happens before (as defined below) B, then A shall precede B in the modification order of M , which is defined below. [ Note: This states that the modification orders must respect the “happens before” relationship. — end note ] [ Note: There is a separate order for each atomic object. There is no requirement that these can be combined into a single total order for 10) An object with automatic or thread storage duration (3.7) is associated with one specific thread, and can be accessed by a different thread only indirectly through a pointer or reference (3.9.2).
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all objects. In general this will be impossible since different threads may observe modifications to different objects in inconsistent orders. — end note ] A release sequence headed by a release operation A on an atomic object M is a maximal contiguous subsequence of side effects in the modification order of M , where the first operation is A, and every subsequent operation — is performed by the same thread that performed A, or — is an atomic read-modify-write operation.
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Certain library calls synchronize with other library calls performed by another thread. For example, an atomic store-release synchronizes with a load-acquire that takes its value from the store (29.3). [ Note: Except in the specified cases, reading a later value does not necessarily ensure visibility as described below. Such a requirement would sometimes interfere with efficient implementation. — end note ] [ Note: The specifications of the synchronization operations define when one reads the value written by another. For atomic objects, the definition is clear. All operations on a given mutex occur in a single total order. Each mutex acquisition “reads the value written” by the last mutex release. — end note ] An evaluation A carries a dependency to an evaluation B if — the value of A is used as an operand of B, unless: — B is an invocation of any specialization of std::kill_dependency (29.3), or — A is the left operand of a built-in logical AND (&&, see 5.14) or logical OR (||, see 5.15) operator, or — A is the left operand of a conditional (?:, see 5.16) operator, or — A is the left operand of the built-in comma (,) operator (5.18); or — A writes a scalar object or bit-field M , B reads the value written by A from M , and A is sequenced before B, or — for some evaluation X , A carries a dependency to X , and X carries a dependency to B.
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[ Note: “Carries a dependency to” is a subset of “is sequenced before”, and is similarly strictly intrathread. — end note ] An evaluation A is dependency-ordered before an evaluation B if — A performs a release operation on an atomic object M , and, in another thread, B performs a consume operation on M and reads a value written by any side effect in the release sequence headed by A, or — for some evaluation X , A is dependency-ordered before X and X carries a dependency to B.
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The implementation shall ensure that no program execution demonstrates a cycle in the “happens before” relation. [ Note: This cycle would otherwise be possible only through the use of consume operations. — end note ] A visible side effect A on a scalar object or bit-field M with respect to a value computation B of M satisfies the conditions: — A happens before B and — there is no other side effect X to M such that A happens before X and X happens before B.
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If a side effect X on an atomic object M happens before a value computation B of M , then the evaluation B shall take its value from X or from a side effect Y that follows X in the modification order of M . [ Note: This requirement is known as write-read coherence. — end note ] [ Note: The four preceding coherence requirements effectively disallow compiler reordering of atomic operations to a single object, even if both operations are relaxed loads. This effectively makes the cache coherence guarantee provided by most hardware available to C++ atomic operations. — end note ] [ Note: The visible sequence of side effects depends on the “happens before” relation, which depends on the values observed by loads of atomics, which we are restricting here. The intended reading is that there must exist an association of atomic loads with modifications they observe that, together with suitably chosen modification orders and the “happens before” relation derived as described above, satisfy the resulting constraints as imposed here. — end note ] The execution of a program contains a data race if it contains two conflicting actions in different threads, at least one of which is not atomic, and neither happens before the other. Any such data race results in undefined behavior. [ Note: It can be shown that programs that correctly use mutexes and memory_order_seq_cst operations to prevent all data races and use no other synchronization operations behave as if the operations executed by their constituent threads were simply interleaved, with each value computation of an object being taken from the last side effect on that object in that interleaving. This is normally referred to as “sequential consistency”. However, this applies only to data-race-free programs, and data-race-free programs cannot observe most program transformations that do not change single-threaded program semantics. In fact, most single-threaded program transformations continue to be allowed, since any program that behaves differently as a result must perform an undefined operation. — end note ] [ Note: Compiler transformations that introduce assignments to a potentially shared memory location that would not be modified by the abstract machine are generally precluded by this standard, since such an assignment might overwrite another assignment by a different thread in cases in which an abstract machine execution would not have encountered a data race. This includes implementations of data member assignment that overwrite adjacent members in separate memory locations. Reordering of atomic loads in cases in which the atomics in question may alias is also generally precluded, since this may violate the “visible sequence” rules. — end note ] [ Note: Transformations that introduce a speculative read of a potentially shared memory location may not preserve the semantics of the C++ program as defined in this standard, since they potentially introduce a data race. However, they are typically valid in the context of an optimizing compiler that targets a specific machine with well-defined semantics for data races. They would be invalid for a hypothetical machine that is not tolerant of races or provides hardware race detection. — end note ] The implementation may assume that any thread will eventually do one of the following: — terminate, — make a call to a library I/O function, — access or modify a volatile object, or — perform a synchronization operation or an atomic operation.
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The C++ programming language as described in this International Standard is based on the language as described in Chapter R (Reference Manual) of Stroustrup: The C++ Programming Language (second edition, c Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, ISBN 0-201-53992-6, copyright 1991 AT&T). That, in turn, is based § 1.11
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The text of the program is kept in units called source files in this International Standard. A source file together with all the headers (17.6.1.2) and source files included (16.2) via the preprocessing directive #include, less any source lines skipped by any of the conditional inclusion (16.1) preprocessing directives, is called a translation unit. [ Note: A C++ program need not all be translated at the same time. — end note ] [ Note: Previously translated translation units and instantiation units can be preserved individually or in libraries. The separate translation units of a program communicate (3.5) by (for example) calls to functions whose identifiers have external linkage, manipulation of objects whose identifiers have external linkage, or manipulation of data files. Translation units can be separately translated and then later linked to produce an executable program (3.5). — end note ]
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The precedence among the syntax rules of translation is specified by the following phases. 1. Physical source file characters are mapped, in an implementation-defined manner, to the basic source character set (introducing new-line characters for end-of-line indicators) if necessary. The set of physical source file characters accepted is implementation-defined. Trigraph sequences (2.4) are replaced by corresponding single-character internal representations. Any source file character not in the basic source character set (2.3) is replaced by the universal-character-name that designates that character. (An implementation may use any internal encoding, so long as an actual extended character encountered in the source file, and the same extended character expressed in the source file as a universal-character-name (i.e., using the \uXXXX notation), are handled equivalently except where this replacement is reverted in a raw string literal.) 2. Each instance of a backslash character (\) immediately followed by a new-line character is deleted, splicing physical source lines to form logical source lines. Only the last backslash on any physical source line shall be eligible for being part of such a splice. If, as a result, a character sequence that matches the syntax of a universal-character-name is produced, the behavior is undefined. A source file that is not empty and that does not end in a new-line character, or that ends in a new-line character immediately preceded by a backslash character before any such splicing takes place, shall be processed as if an additional new-line character were appended to the file. 3. The source file is decomposed into preprocessing tokens (2.5) and sequences of white-space characters (including comments). A source file shall not end in a partial preprocessing token or in a partial comment.12 Each comment is replaced by one space character. New-line characters are retained. Whether each nonempty sequence of white-space characters other than new-line is retained or replaced by one space character is unspecified. The process of dividing a source file’s characters into preprocessing tokens is context-dependent. [ Example: see the handling of < within a #include preprocessing directive. — end example ] 4. Preprocessing directives are executed, macro invocations are expanded, and _Pragma unary operator expressions are executed. If a character sequence that matches the syntax of a universal-character-name 11) Implementations must behave as if these separate phases occur, although in practice different phases might be folded together. 12) A partial preprocessing token would arise from a source file ending in the first portion of a multi-character token that requires a terminating sequence of characters, such as a header-name that is missing the closing " or >. A partial comment would arise from a source file ending with an unclosed /* comment.
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is produced by token concatenation (16.3.3), the behavior is undefined. A #include preprocessing directive causes the named header or source file to be processed from phase 1 through phase 4, recursively. All preprocessing directives are then deleted. 5. Each source character set member in a character literal or a string literal, as well as each escape sequence and universal-character-name in a character literal or a non-raw string literal, is converted to the corresponding member of the execution character set (2.14.3, 2.14.5); if there is no corresponding member, it is converted to an implementation-defined member other than the null (wide) character.13 6. Adjacent string literal tokens are concatenated. 7. White-space characters separating tokens are no longer significant. Each preprocessing token is converted into a token. (2.7). The resulting tokens are syntactically and semantically analyzed and translated as a translation unit. [ Note: The process of analyzing and translating the tokens may occasionally result in one token being replaced by a sequence of other tokens (14.2). — end note ] [ Note: Source files, translation units and translated translation units need not necessarily be stored as files, nor need there be any one-to-one correspondence between these entities and any external representation. The description is conceptual only, and does not specify any particular implementation. — end note ] 8. Translated translation units and instantiation units are combined as follows: [ Note: Some or all of these may be supplied from a library. — end note ] Each translated translation unit is examined to produce a list of required instantiations. [ Note: This may include instantiations which have been explicitly requested (14.7.2). — end note ] The definitions of the required templates are located. It is implementation-defined whether the source of the translation units containing these definitions is required to be available. [ Note: An implementation could encode sufficient information into the translated translation unit so as to ensure the source is not required here. — end note ] All the required instantiations are performed to produce instantiation units. [ Note: These are similar to translated translation units, but contain no references to uninstantiated templates and no template definitions. — end note ] The program is ill-formed if any instantiation fails. 9. All external entity references are resolved. Library components are linked to satisfy external references to entities not defined in the current translation. All such translator output is collected into a program image which contains information needed for execution in its execution environment.
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The basic source character set consists of 96 characters: the space character, the control characters representing horizontal tab, vertical tab, form feed, and new-line, plus the following 91 graphical characters:14 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 _ { } [ ] # ( ) < > % : ; . ? * + - / ^ & | ∼ ! = , \ " ’
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ISO/IEC 10646 which corresponds to the ASCII character set. However, because the mapping from source file characters to the source character set (described in translation phase 1) is specified as implementation-defined, an implementation is required to document how the basic source characters are represented in source files.
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The character designated by the universal-character-name \UNNNNNNNN is that character whose character short name in ISO/IEC 10646 is NNNNNNNN; the character designated by the universal-character-name \uNNNN is that character whose character short name in ISO/IEC 10646 is 0000NNNN. If the hexadecimal value for a universal-character-name corresponds to a surrogate code point (in the range 0xD800–0xDFFF, inclusive), the program is ill-formed. Additionally, if the hexadecimal value for a universal-character-name outside the c-char-sequence, s-char-sequence, or r-char-sequence of a character or string literal corresponds to a control character (in either of the ranges 0x00–0x1F or 0x7F–0x9F, both inclusive) or to a character in the basic source character set, the program is ill-formed.15 The basic execution character set and the basic execution wide-character set shall each contain all the members of the basic source character set, plus control characters representing alert, backspace, and carriage return, plus a null character (respectively, null wide character), whose representation has all zero bits. For each basic execution character set, the values of the members shall be non-negative and distinct from one another. In both the source and execution basic character sets, the value of each character after 0 in the above list of decimal digits shall be one greater than the value of the previous. The execution character set and the execution wide-character set are implementation-defined supersets of the basic execution character set and the basic execution wide-character set, respectively. The values of the members of the execution character sets and the sets of additional members are locale-specific.
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Before any other processing takes place, each occurrence of one of the following sequences of three characters (“trigraph sequences”) is replaced by the single character indicated in Table 1. Table 1 — Trigraph sequences Trigraph ??= ??/ ??’
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Each preprocessing token that is converted to a token (2.7) shall have the lexical form of a keyword, an identifier, a literal, an operator, or a punctuator. A preprocessing token is the minimal lexical element of the language in translation phases 3 through 6. The categories of preprocessing token are: header names, identifiers, preprocessing numbers, character literals (including user-defined character literals), string literals (including user-defined string literals), preprocessing operators and punctuators, and single non-white-space characters that do not lexically match the other preprocessing token categories. If a ’ or a " character matches the last category, the behavior is undefined. Preprocessing tokens can be separated by white space; this consists of comments (2.8), or white-space characters (space, horizontal tab, new-line, vertical tab, and form-feed), or both. As described in Clause 16, in certain circumstances during translation phase 4, white space (or the absence thereof) serves as more than preprocessing token separation. White space can appear within a preprocessing token only as part of a header name or between the quotation characters in a character literal or string literal. If the input stream has been parsed into preprocessing tokens up to a given character: — If the next character begins a sequence of characters that could be the prefix and initial double quote of a raw string literal, such as R", the next preprocessing token shall be a raw string literal. Between the initial and final double quote characters of the raw string, any transformations performed in phases 1 and 2 (trigraphs, universal-character-names, and line splicing) are reverted; this reversion shall apply before any d-char, r-char, or delimiting parenthesis is identified. The raw string literal is defined as the shortest sequence of characters that matches the raw-string pattern encoding-prefixopt R raw-string
— Otherwise, if the next three characters are , the < is treated as a preprocessor token by itself and not as the first character of the alternative token " q-char-sequence " h-char-sequence: h-char h-char-sequence h-char h-char: any member of the source character set except new-line and > 16) These include “digraphs” and additional reserved words. The term “digraph” (token consisting of two characters) is not perfectly descriptive, since one of the alternative preprocessing-tokens is %:%: and of course several primary tokens contain two characters. Nonetheless, those alternative tokens that aren’t lexical keywords are colloquially known as “digraphs”. 17) Thus the “stringized” values (16.3.2) of [ and > ++ compl
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There are several kinds of literals. literal: integer-literal character-literal floating-literal string-literal boolean-literal pointer-literal user-defined-literal
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integer-literal: decimal-literal integer-suffixopt octal-literal integer-suffixopt hexadecimal-literal integer-suffixopt decimal-literal: nonzero-digit decimal-literal digit octal-literal: 0 octal-literal octal-digit hexadecimal-literal: 0x hexadecimal-digit 0X hexadecimal-digit hexadecimal-literal hexadecimal-digit nonzero-digit: one of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 octal-digit: one of 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 hexadecimal-digit: one of 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f A B C D E F integer-suffix: unsigned-suffix long-suffixopt unsigned-suffix long-long-suffixopt long-suffix unsigned-suffixopt long-long-suffix unsigned-suffixopt 21) The term “literal” generally designates, in this International Standard, those tokens that are called “constants” in ISO C.
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An integer literal is a sequence of digits that has no period or exponent part. An integer literal may have a prefix that specifies its base and a suffix that specifies its type. The lexically first digit of the sequence of digits is the most significant. A decimal integer literal (base ten) begins with a digit other than 0 and consists of a sequence of decimal digits. An octal integer literal (base eight) begins with the digit 0 and consists of a sequence of octal digits.22 A hexadecimal integer literal (base sixteen) begins with 0x or 0X and consists of a sequence of hexadecimal digits, which include the decimal digits and the letters a through f and A through F with decimal values ten through fifteen. [ Example: the number twelve can be written 12, 014, or 0XC. — end example ] The type of an integer literal is the first of the corresponding list in Table 6 in which its value can be represented. Table 6 — Types of integer constants Suffix none
Decimal constants int long int long long int
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Octal or hexadecimal constant int unsigned int long int unsigned long int long long int unsigned long long int unsigned int unsigned long int unsigned long long int long int unsigned long int long long int unsigned long long int unsigned long int unsigned long long int long long int unsigned long long int unsigned long long int
If an integer literal cannot be represented by any type in its list and an extended integer type (3.9.1) can represent its value, it may have that extended integer type. If all of the types in the list for the literal are signed, the extended integer type shall be signed. If all of the types in the list for the literal are unsigned, the extended integer type shall be unsigned. If the list contains both signed and unsigned types, the extended integer type may be signed or unsigned. A program is ill-formed if one of its translation units contains an 22) The digits 8 and 9 are not octal digits.
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The escape \ooo consists of the backslash followed by one, two, or three octal digits that are taken to specify the value of the desired character. The escape \xhhh consists of the backslash followed by x followed by one or more hexadecimal digits that are taken to specify the value of the desired character. There is no limit to the number of digits in a hexadecimal sequence. A sequence of octal or hexadecimal digits is terminated by the first character that is not an octal digit or a hexadecimal digit, respectively. The value of a character literal is implementation-defined if it falls outside of the implementation-defined range defined for char (for literals with no prefix), char16_t (for literals prefixed by ’u’), char32_t (for literals prefixed by ’U’), or wchar_t (for literals prefixed by ’L’). A universal-character-name is translated to the encoding, in the appropriate execution character set, of the character named. If there is no such encoding, the universal-character-name is translated to an implementationdefined encoding. [ Note: In translation phase 1, a universal-character-name is introduced whenever an actual extended character is encountered in the source text. Therefore, all extended characters are described in terms of universal-character-names. However, the actual compiler implementation may use its own native character set, so long as the same results are obtained. — end note ]
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floating-literal: fractional-constant exponent-partopt floating-suffixopt digit-sequence exponent-part floating-suffixopt fractional-constant: digit-sequenceopt . digit-sequence digit-sequence . exponent-part: e signopt digit-sequence E signopt digit-sequence 24) Using an escape sequence for a question mark can avoid accidentally creating a trigraph.
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A floating literal consists of an integer part, a decimal point, a fraction part, an e or E, an optionally signed integer exponent, and an optional type suffix. The integer and fraction parts both consist of a sequence of decimal (base ten) digits. Either the integer part or the fraction part (not both) can be omitted; either the decimal point or the letter e (or E ) and the exponent (not both) can be omitted. The integer part, the optional decimal point and the optional fraction part form the significant part of the floating literal. The exponent, if present, indicates the power of 10 by which the significant part is to be scaled. If the scaled value is in the range of representable values for its type, the result is the scaled value if representable, else the larger or smaller representable value nearest the scaled value, chosen in an implementation-defined manner. The type of a floating literal is double unless explicitly specified by a suffix. The suffixes f and F specify float, the suffixes l and L specify long double. If the scaled value is not in the range of representable values for its type, the program is ill-formed.
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A string literal is a sequence of characters (as defined in 2.14.3) surrounded by double quotes, optionally prefixed by R, u8, u8R, u, uR, U, UR, L, or LR, as in "...", R"(...)", u8"...", u8R"**(...)**", u"...", uR"*˜(...)*˜", U"...", UR"zzz(...)zzz", L"...", or LR"(...)", respectively. A string literal that has an R in the prefix is a raw string literal. The d-char-sequence serves as a delimiter. The terminating d-char-sequence of a raw-string is the same sequence of characters as the initial d-charsequence. A d-char-sequence shall consist of at most 16 characters. [ Note: The characters ’(’ and ’)’ are permitted in a raw-string. Thus, R"delimiter((a|b))delimiter" is equivalent to "(a|b)". — end note ] [ Note: A source-file new-line in a raw string literal results in a new-line in the resulting execution stringliteral. Assuming no whitespace at the beginning of lines in the following example, the assert will succeed: const char *p = R"(a\ b c)"; assert(std::strcmp(p, "a\\\nb\nc") == 0);
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Means u"ab" u"ab" u"ab"
Source U"a" U"b" U"a" "b" "a" U"b"
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boolean-literal: false true
The Boolean literals are the keywords false and true. Such literals are prvalues and have type bool.
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The pointer literal is the keyword nullptr. It is a prvalue of type std::nullptr_t. [ Note: std::nullptr_t is a distinct type that is neither a pointer type nor a pointer to member type; rather, a prvalue of this type is
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2.14.8
User-defined literals
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user-defined-literal: user-defined-integer-literal user-defined-floating-literal user-defined-string-literal user-defined-character-literal user-defined-integer-literal: decimal-literal ud-suffix octal-literal ud-suffix hexadecimal-literal ud-suffix user-defined-floating-literal: fractional-constant exponent-partopt ud-suffix digit-sequence exponent-part ud-suffix user-defined-string-literal: string-literal ud-suffix user-defined-character-literal: character-literal ud-suffix ud-suffix: identifier 1
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Otherwise, S shall contain a raw literal operator or a literal operator template (13.5.8) but not both. If S contains a raw literal operator, the literal L is treated as a call of the form operator "" X ("n ")
Otherwise (S contains a literal operator template), L is treated as a call of the form operator "" X ()
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Otherwise, S shall contain a raw literal operator or a literal operator template (13.5.8) but not both. If S contains a raw literal operator, the literal L is treated as a call of the form operator "" X ("f ")
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[ Note: This Clause presents the basic concepts of the C++ language. It explains the difference between an object and a name and how they relate to the value categories for expressions. It introduces the concepts of a declaration and a definition and presents C++’s notion of type, scope, linkage, and storage duration. The mechanisms for starting and terminating a program are discussed. Finally, this Clause presents the fundamental types of the language and lists the ways of constructing compound types from these. — end note ] [ Note: This Clause does not cover concepts that affect only a single part of the language. Such concepts are discussed in the relevant Clauses. — end note ] An entity is a value, object, reference, function, enumerator, type, class member, template, template specialization, namespace, parameter pack, or this. A name is a use of an identifier (2.11), operator-function-id (13.5), literal-operator-id (13.5.8), conversionfunction-id (12.3.2), or template-id (14.2) that denotes an entity or label (6.6.4, 6.1). Every name that denotes an entity is introduced by a declaration. Every name that denotes a label is introduced either by a goto statement (6.6.4) or a labeled-statement (6.1). A variable is introduced by the declaration of a reference other than a non-static data member or of an object. The variable’s name denotes the reference or object. Some names denote types or templates. In general, whenever a name is encountered it is necessary to determine whether that name denotes one of these entities before continuing to parse the program that contains it. The process that determines this is called name lookup (3.4). Two names are the same if — they are identifiers composed of the same character sequence, or — they are operator-function-ids formed with the same operator, or — they are conversion-function-ids formed with the same type, or — they are template-ids that refer to the same class or function (14.4), or — they are the names of literal operators (13.5.8) formed with the same literal suffix identifier.
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A declaration (Clause 7) may introduce one or more names into a translation unit or redeclare names introduced by previous declarations. If so, the declaration specifies the interpretation and attributes of these names. A declaration may also have effects including: — a static assertion (Clause 7), — controlling template instantiation (14.7.2), — use of attributes (Clause 7), and — nothing (in the case of an empty-declaration).
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A declaration is a definition unless it declares a function without specifying the function’s body (8.4), it contains the extern specifier (7.1.1) or a linkage-specification 25 (7.5) and neither an initializer nor a functionbody, it declares a static data member in a class definition (9.2, 9.4), it is a class name declaration (9.1), it is an opaque-enum-declaration (7.2), it is a template-parameter (14.1), it is a parameter-declaration (8.3.5) in a function declarator that is not the declarator of a function-definition, or it is a typedef declaration (7.1.3), an alias-declaration (7.1.3), a using-declaration (7.3.3), a static_assert-declaration (Clause 7), an attributedeclaration (Clause 7), an empty-declaration (Clause 7), or a using-directive (7.3.4). [ Example: all but one of the following are definitions: int a; extern const int c = 1; int f(int x) { return x+a; } struct S { int a; int b; }; struct X { int x; static int y; X(): x(0) { } }; int X::y = 1; enum { up, down }; namespace N { int d; } namespace N1 = N; X anX;
// // // // // // // //
defines a defines c defines f and defines x defines S, S::a, and S::b defines X defines non-static data member x declares static data member y defines a constructor of X
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— end example ] [ Note: In some circumstances, C++ implementations implicitly define the default constructor (12.1), copy constructor (12.8), move constructor (12.8), copy assignment operator (12.8), move assignment operator (12.8), or destructor (12.4) member functions. — end note ] [ Example: given #include struct C { std::string s; }; int C C b }
// std::string is the standard library class (Clause 21)
main() { a; b = a; = a;
the implementation will implicitly define functions to make the definition of C equivalent to struct C { std::string s; 25) Appearing inside the braced-enclosed declaration-seq in a linkage-specification does not affect whether a declaration is a definition.
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C() : s() { } C(const C& x): s(x.s) { } C(C&& x): s(static_cast(x.s)) { } // : s(std::move(x.s)) { } C& operator=(const C& x) { s = x.s; return *this; } C& operator=(C&& x) { s = static_cast(x.s); return *this; } // { s = std::move(x.s); return *this; } ~C() { } }; 4 5
— end example ] [ Note: A class name can also be implicitly declared by an elaborated-type-specifier (7.1.6.3). — end note ] A program is ill-formed if the definition of any object gives the object an incomplete type (3.9).
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No translation unit shall contain more than one definition of any variable, function, class type, enumeration type, or template. An expression is potentially evaluated unless it is an unevaluated operand (Clause 5) or a subexpression thereof. The set of potential results of an expression e is defined as follows: — If e is an id-expression (5.1.1), the set contains only e. — If e is a class member access expression (5.2.5), the set contains the potential results of the object expression. — If e is a pointer-to-member expression (5.5) whose second operand is a constant expression, the set contains the potential results of the object expression. — If e has the form (e1), the set contains the potential results of e1. — If e is a glvalue conditional expression (5.16), the set is the union of the sets of potential results of the second and third operands. — If e is a comma expression (5.18), the set contains the potential results of the right operand. — Otherwise, the set is empty.
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a virtual destructor (12.4).26 An assignment operator function in a class is odr-used by an implicitly-defined copy-assignment or move-assignment function for another class as specified in 12.8. A default constructor for a class is odr-used by default initialization or value initialization as specified in 8.5. A constructor for a class is odr-used as specified in 8.5. A destructor for a class is odr-used as specified in 12.4. Every program shall contain exactly one definition of every non-inline function or variable that is odr-used in that program; no diagnostic required. The definition can appear explicitly in the program, it can be found in the standard or a user-defined library, or (when appropriate) it is implicitly defined (see 12.1, 12.4 and 12.8). An inline function shall be defined in every translation unit in which it is odr-used. Exactly one definition of a class is required in a translation unit if the class is used in a way that requires the class type to be complete. [ Example: the following complete translation unit is well-formed, even though it never defines X: struct X; struct X* x1; X* x2;
// declare X as a struct type // use X in pointer formation // use X in pointer formation
— end example ] [ Note: The rules for declarations and expressions describe in which contexts complete class types are required. A class type T must be complete if: — an object of type T is defined (3.1), or — a non-static class data member of type T is declared (9.2), or — T is used as the object type or array element type in a new-expression (5.3.4), or — an lvalue-to-rvalue conversion is applied to a glvalue referring to an object of type T (4.1), or — an expression is converted (either implicitly or explicitly) to type T (Clause 4, 5.2.3, 5.2.7, 5.2.9, 5.4), or — an expression that is not a null pointer constant, and has type other than cv void*, is converted to the type pointer to T or reference to T using a standard conversion (Clause 4), a dynamic_cast (5.2.7) or a static_cast (5.2.9), or — a class member access operator is applied to an expression of type T (5.2.5), or — the typeid operator (5.2.8) or the sizeof operator (5.3.3) is applied to an operand of type T, or — a function with a return type or argument type of type T is defined (3.1) or called (5.2.2), or — a class with a base class of type T is defined (Clause 10), or — an lvalue of type T is assigned to (5.17), or — the type T is the subject of an alignof expression (5.3.6), or — an exception-declaration has type T, reference to T, or pointer to T (15.3). 6
— end note ] There can be more than one definition of a class type (Clause 9), enumeration type (7.2), inline function with external linkage (7.1.2), class template (Clause 14), non-static function template (14.5.6), static data member of a class template (14.5.1.3), member function of a class template (14.5.1.1), or template specialization for which some template parameters are not specified (14.7, 14.5.5) in a program provided that each definition appears in a different translation unit, and provided the definitions satisfy the following requirements. Given such an entity named D defined in more than one translation unit, then 26) An implementation is not required to call allocation and deallocation functions from constructors or destructors; however, this is a permissible implementation technique.
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— each definition of D shall consist of the same sequence of tokens; and — in each definition of D, corresponding names, looked up according to 3.4, shall refer to an entity defined within the definition of D, or shall refer to the same entity, after overload resolution (13.3) and after matching of partial template specialization (14.8.3), except that a name can refer to a const object with internal or no linkage if the object has the same literal type in all definitions of D, and the object is initialized with a constant expression (5.19), and the value (but not the address) of the object is used, and the object has the same value in all definitions of D; and — in each definition of D, corresponding entities shall have the same language linkage; and — in each definition of D, the overloaded operators referred to, the implicit calls to conversion functions, constructors, operator new functions and operator delete functions, shall refer to the same function, or to a function defined within the definition of D; and — in each definition of D, a default argument used by an (implicit or explicit) function call is treated as if its token sequence were present in the definition of D; that is, the default argument is subject to the three requirements described above (and, if the default argument has sub-expressions with default arguments, this requirement applies recursively).27 — if D is a class with an implicitly-declared constructor (12.1), it is as if the constructor was implicitly defined in every translation unit where it is odr-used, and the implicit definition in every translation unit shall call the same constructor for a base class or a class member of D. [ Example: //translation unit 1: struct X { X(int); X(int, int); }; X::X(int = 0) { } class D: public X { }; D d2; //translation unit 2: struct X { X(int); X(int, int); }; X::X(int = 0, int = 0) { } class D: public X { };
// X(int) called by D()
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Every name is introduced in some portion of program text called a declarative region, which is the largest part of the program in which that name is valid, that is, in which that name may be used as an unqualified name to refer to the same entity. In general, each particular name is valid only within some possibly discontiguous portion of program text called its scope. To determine the scope of a declaration, it is sometimes convenient to refer to the potential scope of a declaration. The scope of a declaration is the same as its potential scope unless the potential scope contains another declaration of the same name. In that case, the potential scope of the declaration in the inner (contained) declarative region is excluded from the scope of the declaration in the outer (containing) declarative region. [ Example: in int j = 24; int main() { int i = j, j; j = 42; }
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the identifier j is declared twice as a name (and used twice). The declarative region of the first j includes the entire example. The potential scope of the first j begins immediately after that j and extends to the end of the program, but its (actual) scope excludes the text between the , and the }. The declarative region of the second declaration of j (the j immediately before the semicolon) includes all the text between { and }, but its potential scope excludes the declaration of i. The scope of the second declaration of j is the same as its potential scope. — end example ] The names declared by a declaration are introduced into the scope in which the declaration occurs, except that the presence of a friend specifier (11.3), certain uses of the elaborated-type-specifier (7.1.6.3), and using-directives (7.3.4) alter this general behavior. Given a set of declarations in a single declarative region, each of which specifies the same unqualified name, — they shall all refer to the same entity, or all refer to functions and function templates; or — exactly one declaration shall declare a class name or enumeration name that is not a typedef name and the other declarations shall all refer to the same variable or enumerator, or all refer to functions and function templates; in this case the class name or enumeration name is hidden (3.3.10). [ Note: A namespace name or a class template name must be unique in its declarative region (7.3.2, Clause 14). — end note ]
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[ Note: These restrictions apply to the declarative region into which a name is introduced, which is not necessarily the same as the region in which the declaration occurs. In particular, elaborated-type-specifiers (7.1.6.3) and friend declarations (11.3) may introduce a (possibly not visible) name into an enclosing namespace; these restrictions apply to that region. Local extern declarations (3.5) may introduce a name into the declarative region where the declaration appears and also introduce a (possibly not visible) name into an enclosing namespace; these restrictions apply to both regions. — end note ] [ Note: The name lookup rules are summarized in 3.4. — end note ]
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Point of declaration
[basic.scope.pdecl]
The point of declaration for a name is immediately after its complete declarator (Clause 8) and before its initializer (if any), except as noted below. [ Example: int x = 12; { int x = x; }
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Here the second x is initialized with its own (indeterminate) value. — end example ] [ Note: a name from an outer scope remains visible up to the point of declaration of the name that hides it.[ Example: § 3.3.2
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declares a block-scope array of two integers. — end example ] — end note ] The point of declaration for a class or class template first declared by a class-specifier is immediately after the identifier or simple-template-id (if any) in its class-head (Clause 9). The point of declaration for an enumeration is immediately after the identifier (if any) in either its enum-specifier (7.2) or its first opaque-enum-declaration (7.2), whichever comes first. The point of declaration of an alias or alias template immediately follows the type-id to which the alias refers. The point of declaration for an enumerator is immediately after its enumerator-definition.[ Example: const int x = 12; { enum { x = x }; }
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Here, the enumerator x is initialized with the value of the constant x, namely 12. — end example ] After the point of declaration of a class member, the member name can be looked up in the scope of its class. [ Note: this is true even if the class is an incomplete class. For example, struct X { enum E { z = 16 }; int b[X::z]; // OK };
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— end note ] The point of declaration of a class first declared in an elaborated-type-specifier is as follows: — for a declaration of the form class-key attribute-specifier-seqopt identifier ;
the identifier is declared to be a class-name in the scope that contains the declaration, otherwise — for an elaborated-type-specifier of the form class-key identifier
if the elaborated-type-specifier is used in the decl-specifier-seq or parameter-declaration-clause of a function defined in namespace scope, the identifier is declared as a class-name in the namespace that contains the declaration; otherwise, except as a friend declaration, the identifier is declared in the smallest namespace or block scope that contains the declaration. [ Note: These rules also apply within templates. — end note ] [ Note: Other forms of elaborated-type-specifier do not declare a new name, and therefore must refer to an existing type-name. See 3.4.4 and 7.1.6.3. — end note ] 7
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The point of declaration for an injected-class-name (Clause 9) is immediately following the opening brace of the class definition. The point of declaration for a function-local predefined variable (8.4) is immediately before the function-body of a function definition. The point of declaration for a template parameter is immediately after its complete template-parameter. [ Example: typedef unsigned char T; template struct A { };
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— end example ] [ Note: Friend declarations refer to functions or classes that are members of the nearest enclosing namespace, but they do not introduce new names into that namespace (7.3.1.2). Function declarations at block scope § 3.3.2
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and variable declarations with the extern specifier at block scope refer to declarations that are members of an enclosing namespace, but they do not introduce new names into that scope. — end note ] [ Note: For point of instantiation of a template, see 14.6.4.1. — end note ]
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[basic.scope.proto]
Function scope
[basic.funscope]
Labels (6.1) have function scope and may be used anywhere in the function in which they are declared. Only labels have function scope.
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[basic.scope.local]
In a function declaration, or in any function declarator except the declarator of a function definition (8.4), names of parameters (if supplied) have function prototype scope, which terminates at the end of the nearest enclosing function declarator.
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Block scope
A name declared in a block (6.3) is local to that block; it has block scope. Its potential scope begins at its point of declaration (3.3.2) and ends at the end of its block. A variable declared at block scope is a local variable. The potential scope of a function parameter name (including one appearing in a lambda-declarator) or of a function-local predefined variable in a function definition (8.4) begins at its point of declaration. If the function has a function-try-block the potential scope of a parameter or of a function-local predefined variable ends at the end of the last associated handler, otherwise it ends at the end of the outermost block of the function definition. A parameter name shall not be redeclared in the outermost block of the function definition nor in the outermost block of any handler associated with a function-try-block. The name declared in an exception-declaration is local to the handler and shall not be redeclared in the outermost block of the handler. Names declared in the for-init-statement, the for-range-declaration, and in the condition of if, while, for, and switch statements are local to the if, while, for, or switch statement (including the controlled statement), and shall not be redeclared in a subsequent condition of that statement nor in the outermost block (or, for the if statement, any of the outermost blocks) of the controlled statement; see 6.4.
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Namespace scope
[basic.scope.namespace]
The declarative region of a namespace-definition is its namespace-body. The potential scope denoted by an original-namespace-name is the concatenation of the declarative regions established by each of the namespace-definitions in the same declarative region with that original-namespace-name. Entities declared in a namespace-body are said to be members of the namespace, and names introduced by these declarations into the declarative region of the namespace are said to be member names of the namespace. A namespace member name has namespace scope. Its potential scope includes its namespace from the name’s point of declaration (3.3.2) onwards; and for each using-directive (7.3.4) that nominates the member’s namespace, the member’s potential scope includes that portion of the potential scope of the using-directive that follows the member’s point of declaration. [ Example: namespace N { int i; int g(int a) { return a; } int j(); void q(); } namespace { int l=1; } // the potential scope of l is from its point of declaration // to the end of the translation unit namespace N { int g(char a) { return l+a;
§ 3.3.6
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// error: duplicate definition // OK: duplicate function declaration
int j() { return g(i); } int q();
// OK: definition of N::j() // calls N::g(int) // error: different return type
} 2
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— end example ] A namespace member can also be referred to after the :: scope resolution operator (5.1) applied to the name of its namespace or the name of a namespace which nominates the member’s namespace in a using-directive; see 3.4.3.2. The outermost declarative region of a translation unit is also a namespace, called the global namespace. A name declared in the global namespace has global namespace scope (also called global scope). The potential scope of such a name begins at its point of declaration (3.3.2) and ends at the end of the translation unit that is its declarative region. Names with global namespace scope are said to be global name.
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Class scope
[basic.scope.class]
The following rules describe the scope of names declared in classes. 1) The potential scope of a name declared in a class consists not only of the declarative region following the name’s point of declaration, but also of all function bodies, default arguments, and brace-or-equalinitializers of non-static data members in that class (including such things in nested classes). 2) A name N used in a class S shall refer to the same declaration in its context and when re-evaluated in the completed scope of S. No diagnostic is required for a violation of this rule. 3) If reordering member declarations in a class yields an alternate valid program under (1) and (2), the program is ill-formed, no diagnostic is required. 4) A name declared within a member function hides a declaration of the same name whose scope extends to or past the end of the member function’s class. 5) The potential scope of a declaration that extends to or past the end of a class definition also extends to the regions defined by its member definitions, even if the members are defined lexically outside the class (this includes static data member definitions, nested class definitions, member function definitions (including the member function body and any portion of the declarator part of such definitions which follows the declarator-id, including a parameter-declaration-clause and any default arguments (8.3.6).[ Example: typedef int c; enum { i = 1 }; class X { char v[i]; int f() { return sizeof(c); } char c; enum { i = 2 };
// error: i refers to ::i // but when reevaluated is X::i // OK: X::c
}; typedef char* struct Y { T a;
§ 3.3.7
T; // error: T refers to ::T
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T;
}; typedef int I; class D { typedef I I; };
// error, even though no reordering involved
— end example ] 2
The name of a class member shall only be used as follows: — in the scope of its class (as described above) or a class derived (Clause 10) from its class, — after the . operator applied to an expression of the type of its class (5.2.5) or a class derived from its class, — after the -> operator applied to a pointer to an object of its class (5.2.5) or a class derived from its class, — after the :: scope resolution operator (5.1) applied to the name of its class or a class derived from its class.
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Template parameter scope
[basic.scope.temp]
The declarative region of the name of a template parameter of a template template-parameter is the smallest template-parameter-list in which the name was introduced. The declarative region of the name of a template parameter of a template is the smallest template-declaration in which the name was introduced. Only template parameter names belong to this declarative region; any other kind of name introduced by the declaration of a template-declaration is instead introduced into the same declarative region where it would be introduced as a result of a non-template declaration of the same name. [ Example: namespace N { template struct A { }; template void f(U) { } struct B { template friend int g(struct C*); }; }
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[basic.scope.enum]
The name of a scoped enumerator (7.2) has enumeration scope. Its potential scope begins at its point of declaration and terminates at the end of the enum-specifier.
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Enumeration scope
// #1 // #2 // #3
The declarative regions of T, U and V are the template-declarations on lines #1, #2 and #3, respectively. But the names A, f, g and C all belong to the same declarative region — namely, the namespace-body of N. (g is still considered to belong to this declarative region in spite of its being hidden during qualified and unqualified name lookup.) — end example ] The potential scope of a template parameter name begins at its point of declaration (3.3.2) and ends at the end of its declarative region. [ Note: This implies that a template-parameter can be used in the declaration of subsequent template-parameters and their default arguments but cannot be used in preceding templateparameters or their default arguments. For example,
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template class X { /∗ ... ∗/ }; template void f(T* p = new T);
This also implies that a template-parameter can be used in the specification of base classes. For example, template class X : public Array { /∗ ... ∗/ }; template class Y : public T { /∗ ... ∗/ };
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The use of a template parameter as a base class implies that a class used as a template argument must be defined and not just declared when the class template is instantiated. — end note ] The declarative region of the name of a template parameter is nested within the immediately-enclosing declarative region. [ Note: As a result, a template-parameter hides any entity with the same name in an enclosing scope (3.3.10). [ Example: typedef int N; template struct A;
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Here, X is a non-type template parameter of type int and Y is a non-type template parameter of the same type as the second template parameter of A. — end example ] — end note ] [ Note: Because the name of a template parameter cannot be redeclared within its potential scope (14.6.1), a template parameter’s scope is often its potential scope. However, it is still possible for a template parameter name to be hidden; see 14.6.1. — end note ]
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[basic.scope.hiding]
A name can be hidden by an explicit declaration of that same name in a nested declarative region or derived class (10.2). A class name (9.1) or enumeration name (7.2) can be hidden by the name of a variable, data member, function, or enumerator declared in the same scope. If a class or enumeration name and a variable, data member, function, or enumerator are declared in the same scope (in any order) with the same name, the class or enumeration name is hidden wherever the variable, data member, function, or enumerator name is visible. In a member function definition, the declaration of a name at block scope hides the declaration of a member of the class with the same name; see 3.3.7. The declaration of a member in a derived class (Clause 10) hides the declaration of a member of a base class of the same name; see 10.2. During the lookup of a name qualified by a namespace name, declarations that would otherwise be made visible by a using-directive can be hidden by declarations with the same name in the namespace containing the using-directive; see (3.4.3.2). If a name is in scope and is not hidden it is said to be visible.
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Name hiding
Name lookup
[basic.lookup]
The name lookup rules apply uniformly to all names (including typedef-names (7.1.3), namespace-names (7.3), and class-names (9.1)) wherever the grammar allows such names in the context discussed by a particular rule. Name lookup associates the use of a name with a declaration (3.1) of that name. Name lookup shall find an unambiguous declaration for the name (see 10.2). Name lookup may associate more than one declaration with a name if it finds the name to be a function name; the declarations are said to form a set of overloaded functions (13.1). Overload resolution (13.3) takes place after name lookup has succeeded. The access rules (Clause 11) are considered only once name lookup and function overload resolution (if applicable) have succeeded. Only after name lookup, function overload resolution (if applicable) and access checking have succeeded are the attributes introduced by the name’s declaration used further in expression processing (Clause 5). A name “looked up in the context of an expression” is looked up as an unqualified name in the scope where the expression is found. The injected-class-name of a class (Clause 9) is also considered to be a member of that class for the purposes of name hiding and lookup.
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[ Note: 3.5 discusses linkage issues. The notions of scope, point of declaration and name hiding are discussed in 3.3. — end note ]
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Unqualified name lookup
[basic.lookup.unqual]
In all the cases listed in 3.4.1, the scopes are searched for a declaration in the order listed in each of the respective categories; name lookup ends as soon as a declaration is found for the name. If no declaration is found, the program is ill-formed. The declarations from the namespace nominated by a using-directive become visible in a namespace enclosing the using-directive; see 7.3.4. For the purpose of the unqualified name lookup rules described in 3.4.1, the declarations from the namespace nominated by the using-directive are considered members of that enclosing namespace. The lookup for an unqualified name used as the postfix-expression of a function call is described in 3.4.2. [ Note: For purposes of determining (during parsing) whether an expression is a postfix-expression for a function call, the usual name lookup rules apply. The rules in 3.4.2 have no effect on the syntactic interpretation of an expression. For example, typedef int f; namespace N { struct A { friend void f(A &); operator int(); void g(A a) { int i = f(a);
// f is the typedef, not the friend // function: equivalent to int(a)
} }; }
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Because the expression is not a function call, the argument-dependent name lookup (3.4.2) does not apply and the friend function f is not found. — end note ] A name used in global scope, outside of any function, class or user-declared namespace, shall be declared before its use in global scope. A name used in a user-declared namespace outside of the definition of any function or class shall be declared before its use in that namespace or before its use in a namespace enclosing its namespace. A name used in the definition of a function following the function’s declarator-id 28 that is a member of namespace N (where, only for the purpose of exposition, N could represent the global scope) shall be declared before its use in the block in which it is used or in one of its enclosing blocks (6.3) or, shall be declared before its use in namespace N or, if N is a nested namespace, shall be declared before its use in one of N’s enclosing namespaces. [ Example: namespace A { namespace N { void f(); } } void A::N::f() { i = 5; // The following scopes are searched for a declaration of i: // 1) outermost block scope of A::N::f, before the use of i // 2) scope of namespace N // 3) scope of namespace A // 4) global scope, before the definition of A::N::f } 28) This refers to unqualified names that occur, for instance, in a type or default argument in the parameter-declaration-clause or used in the function body.
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— end example ] A name used in the definition of a class X outside of a member function body, default argument, braceor-equal-initializer of a non-static data member, or nested class definition29 shall be declared in one of the following ways: — before its use in class X or be a member of a base class of X (10.2), or — if X is a nested class of class Y (9.7), before the definition of X in Y, or shall be a member of a base class of Y (this lookup applies in turn to Y ’s enclosing classes, starting with the innermost enclosing class),30 or — if X is a local class (9.8) or is a nested class of a local class, before the definition of class X in a block enclosing the definition of class X, or — if X is a member of namespace N, or is a nested class of a class that is a member of N, or is a local class or a nested class within a local class of a function that is a member of N, before the definition of class X in namespace N or in one of N ’s enclosing namespaces. [ Example: namespace M { class B { }; } namespace class Y class int }; }; } // // // // // //
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N { : public M::B { X { a[i];
The following scopes are searched for a declaration of i: 1) scope of class N::Y::X, before the use of i 2) scope of class N::Y, before the definition of N::Y::X 3) scope of N::Y’s base class M::B 4) scope of namespace N, before the definition of N::Y 5) global scope, before the definition of N
— end example ] [ Note: When looking for a prior declaration of a class or function introduced by a friend declaration, scopes outside of the innermost enclosing namespace scope are not considered; see 7.3.1.2. — end note ] [ Note: 3.3.7 further describes the restrictions on the use of names in a class definition. 9.7 further describes the restrictions on the use of names in nested class definitions. 9.8 further describes the restrictions on the use of names in local class definitions. — end note ] For the members of a class X, a name used in a member function body, in a default argument, in the braceor-equal-initializer of a non-static data member (9.2), or in the definition of a class member outside of the definition of X, following the member’s declarator-id 31 , shall be declared in one of the following ways: — before its use in the block in which it is used or in an enclosing block (6.3), or 29) This refers to unqualified names following the class name; such a name may be used in the base-clause or may be used in the class definition. 30) This lookup applies whether the definition of X is nested within Y’s definition or whether X’s definition appears in a namespace scope enclosing Y ’s definition (9.7). 31) That is, an unqualified name that occurs, for instance, in a type in the parameter-declaration-clause or in the exceptionspecification.
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— shall be a member of class X or be a member of a base class of X (10.2), or — if X is a nested class of class Y (9.7), shall be a member of Y, or shall be a member of a base class of Y (this lookup applies in turn to Y’s enclosing classes, starting with the innermost enclosing class),32 or — if X is a local class (9.8) or is a nested class of a local class, before the definition of class X in a block enclosing the definition of class X, or — if X is a member of namespace N, or is a nested class of a class that is a member of N, or is a local class or a nested class within a local class of a function that is a member of N, before the use of the name, in namespace N or in one of N ’s enclosing namespaces. [ Example: class B { }; namespace M { namespace N { class X : public B { void f(); }; } } void M::N::X::f() { i = 16; } // // // // // // //
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The following scopes are searched for a declaration of i: 1) outermost block scope of M::N::X::f, before the use of i 2) scope of class M::N::X 3) scope of M::N::X’s base class B 4) scope of namespace M::N 5) scope of namespace M 6) global scope, before the definition of M::N::X::f
— end example ] [ Note: 9.3 and 9.4 further describe the restrictions on the use of names in member function definitions. 9.7 further describes the restrictions on the use of names in the scope of nested classes. 9.8 further describes the restrictions on the use of names in local class definitions. — end note ] Name lookup for a name used in the definition of a friend function (11.3) defined inline in the class granting friendship shall proceed as described for lookup in member function definitions. If the friend function is not defined in the class granting friendship, name lookup in the friend function definition shall proceed as described for lookup in namespace member function definitions. In a friend declaration naming a member function, a name used in the function declarator and not part of a template-argument in the declarator-id is first looked up in the scope of the member function’s class (10.2). If it is not found, or if the name is part of a template-argument in the declarator-id, the look up is as described for unqualified names in the definition of the class granting friendship. [ Example: struct A { typedef int AT; void f1(AT); void f2(float); template void f3(); }; struct B { 32) This lookup applies whether the member function is defined within the definition of class X or whether the member function is defined in a namespace scope enclosing X’s definition.
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// parameter type is A::AT // parameter type is B::BT // template argument is B::AT
— end example ] During the lookup for a name used as a default argument (8.3.6) in a function parameter-declaration-clause or used in the expression of a mem-initializer for a constructor (12.6.2), the function parameter names are visible and hide the names of entities declared in the block, class or namespace scopes containing the function declaration. [ Note: 8.3.6 further describes the restrictions on the use of names in default arguments. 12.6.2 further describes the restrictions on the use of names in a ctor-initializer. — end note ] During the lookup of a name used in the constant-expression of an enumerator-definition, previously declared enumerators of the enumeration are visible and hide the names of entities declared in the block, class, or namespace scopes containing the enum-specifier. A name used in the definition of a static data member of class X (9.4.2) (after the qualified-id of the static member) is looked up as if the name was used in a member function of X. [ Note: 9.4.2 further describes the restrictions on the use of names in the definition of a static data member. — end note ] If a variable member of a namespace is defined outside of the scope of its namespace then any name that appears in the definition of the member (after the declarator-id) is looked up as if the definition of the member occurred in its namespace. [ Example: namespace N { int i = 4; extern int j; } int i = 2; int N::j = i;
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— end example ] A name used in the handler for a function-try-block (Clause 15) is looked up as if the name was used in the outermost block of the function definition. In particular, the function parameter names shall not be redeclared in the exception-declaration nor in the outermost block of a handler for the function-try-block. Names declared in the outermost block of the function definition are not found when looked up in the scope of a handler for the function-try-block. [ Note: But function parameter names are found. — end note ] [ Note: The rules for name lookup in template definitions are described in 14.6. — end note ]
3.4.2 1
// N::j == 4
Argument-dependent name lookup
[basic.lookup.argdep]
When the postfix-expression in a function call (5.2.2) is an unqualified-id, other namespaces not considered during the usual unqualified lookup (3.4.1) may be searched, and in those namespaces, namespace-scope friend function declarations (11.3) not otherwise visible may be found. These modifications to the search depend on the types of the arguments (and for template template arguments, the namespace of the template argument). [ Example: namespace N { struct S { }; void f(S); } void g() { N::S s;
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} 2
— end example ] For each argument type T in the function call, there is a set of zero or more associated namespaces and a set of zero or more associated classes to be considered. The sets of namespaces and classes is determined entirely by the types of the function arguments (and the namespace of any template template argument). Typedef names and using-declarations used to specify the types do not contribute to this set. The sets of namespaces and classes are determined in the following way: — If T is a fundamental type, its associated sets of namespaces and classes are both empty. — If T is a class type (including unions), its associated classes are: the class itself; the class of which it is a member, if any; and its direct and indirect base classes. Its associated namespaces are the namespaces of which its associated classes are members. Furthermore, if T is a class template specialization, its associated namespaces and classes also include: the namespaces and classes associated with the types of the template arguments provided for template type parameters (excluding template template parameters); the namespaces of which any template template arguments are members; and the classes of which any member templates used as template template arguments are members. [ Note: Non-type template arguments do not contribute to the set of associated namespaces. — end note ] — If T is an enumeration type, its associated namespace is the namespace in which it is defined. If it is class member, its associated class is the member’s class; else it has no associated class. — If T is a pointer to U or an array of U, its associated namespaces and classes are those associated with U. — If T is a function type, its associated namespaces and classes are those associated with the function parameter types and those associated with the return type. — If T is a pointer to a member function of a class X, its associated namespaces and classes are those associated with the function parameter types and return type, together with those associated with X. — If T is a pointer to a data member of class X, its associated namespaces and classes are those associated with the member type together with those associated with X.
3
If an associated namespace is an inline namespace (7.3.1), its enclosing namespace is also included in the set. If an associated namespace directly contains inline namespaces, those inline namespaces are also included in the set. In addition, if the argument is the name or address of a set of overloaded functions and/or function templates, its associated classes and namespaces are the union of those associated with each of the members of the set, i.e., the classes and namespaces associated with its parameter types and return type. Additionally, if the aforementioned set of overloaded functions is named with a template-id, its associated classes and namespaces also include those of its type template-arguments and its template template-arguments. Let X be the lookup set produced by unqualified lookup (3.4.1) and let Y be the lookup set produced by argument dependent lookup (defined as follows). If X contains — a declaration of a class member, or — a block-scope function declaration that is not a using-declaration, or — a declaration that is neither a function or a function template
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then Y is empty. Otherwise Y is the set of declarations found in the namespaces associated with the argument types as described below. The set of declarations found by the lookup of the name is the union of X and Y . [ Note: The namespaces and classes associated with the argument types can include namespaces and classes already considered by the ordinary unqualified lookup. — end note ] [ Example: namespace NS { class T { }; void f(T); void g(T, int); } NS::T parm; void g(NS::T, float); int main() { f(parm); extern void g(NS::T, float); g(parm, 1); } 4
// OK: calls NS::f // OK: calls g(NS::T, float)
— end example ] When considering an associated namespace, the lookup is the same as the lookup performed when the associated namespace is used as a qualifier (3.4.3.2) except that: — Any using-directives in the associated namespace are ignored. — Any namespace-scope friend functions or friend function templates declared in associated classes are visible within their respective namespaces even if they are not visible during an ordinary lookup (11.3). — All names except those of (possibly overloaded) functions and function templates are ignored.
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Qualified name lookup
The name of a class or namespace member or enumerator can be referred to after the :: scope resolution operator (5.1) applied to a nested-name-specifier that denotes its class, namespace, or enumeration. If a :: scope resolution operator in a nested-name-specifier is not preceded by a decltype-specifier, lookup of the name preceding that :: considers only namespaces, types, and templates whose specializations are types. If the name found does not designate a namespace or a class, enumeration, or dependent type, the program is ill-formed.[ Example: class A { public: static int n; }; int main() { int A; A::n = 42; A b; }
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// OK // ill-formed: A does not name a type
— end example ] [ Note: Multiply qualified names, such as N1::N2::N3::n, can be used to refer to members of nested classes (9.7) or members of nested namespaces. — end note ] In a declaration in which the declarator-id is a qualified-id, names used before the qualified-id being declared are looked up in the defining namespace scope; names following the qualified-id are looked up in the scope of the member’s class or namespace. [ Example: class X { }; class C {
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— end example ] A name prefixed by the unary scope operator :: (5.1) is looked up in global scope, in the translation unit where it is used. The name shall be declared in global namespace scope or shall be a name whose declaration is visible in global scope because of a using-directive (3.4.3.2). The use of :: allows a global name to be referred to even if its identifier has been hidden (3.3.10). A name prefixed by a nested-name-specifier that nominates an enumeration type shall represent an enumerator of that enumeration. If a pseudo-destructor-name (5.2.4) contains a nested-name-specifier, the type-names are looked up as types in the scope designated by the nested-name-specifier. Similarly, in a qualified-id of the form: nested-name-specifieropt class-name ::
~ class-name
the second class-name is looked up in the same scope as the first. [ Example: struct C { typedef int I; }; typedef int I1, I2; extern int* p; extern int* q; p->C::I::~I(); // I is looked up in the scope of C q->I1::~I2(); // I2 is looked up in the scope of // the postfix-expression struct A { ~A(); }; typedef A AB; int main() { AB *p; p->AB::~AB(); }
// explicitly calls the destructor for A
— end example ] [ Note: 3.4.5 describes how name lookup proceeds after the . and -> operators. — end note ] 3.4.3.1 Class members [class.qual] 1
If the nested-name-specifier of a qualified-id nominates a class, the name specified after the nested-namespecifier is looked up in the scope of the class (10.2), except for the cases listed below. The name shall represent one or more members of that class or of one of its base classes (Clause 10). [ Note: A class member can be referred to using a qualified-id at any point in its potential scope (3.3.7). — end note ] The exceptions to the name lookup rule above are the following: — a destructor name is looked up as specified in 3.4.3; — a conversion-type-id of a conversion-function-id is looked up in the same manner as a conversion-type-id in a class member access (see 3.4.5); — the names in a template-argument of a template-id are looked up in the context in which the entire postfix-expression occurs.
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— the lookup for a name specified in a using-declaration (7.3.3) also finds class or enumeration names hidden within the same scope (3.3.10). 2
In a lookup in which the constructor is an acceptable lookup result and the nested-name-specifier nominates a class C: — if the name specified after the nested-name-specifier, when looked up in C, is the injected-class-name of C (Clause 9), or — in a using-declaration (7.3.3) that is a member-declaration, if the name specified after the nested-namespecifier is the same as the identifier or the simple-template-id’s template-name in the last component of the nested-name-specifier, the name is instead considered to name the constructor of class C. [ Note: For example, the constructor is not an acceptable lookup result in an elaborated-type-specifier so the constructor would not be used in place of the injected-class-name. — end note ] Such a constructor name shall be used only in the declarator-id of a declaration that names a constructor or in a using-declaration. [ Example: struct A { A(); }; struct B: public A { B(); }; A::A() { } B::B() { } B::A ba; A::A a; struct A::A a2;
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Namespace members
[namespace.qual]
If the nested-name-specifier of a qualified-id nominates a namespace, the name specified after the nestedname-specifier is looked up in the scope of the namespace. If a qualified-id starts with ::, the name after the :: is looked up in the global namespace. In either case, the names in a template-argument of a template-id are looked up in the context in which the entire postfix-expression occurs. For a namespace X and name m, the namespace-qualified lookup set S(X, m) is defined as follows: Let S 0 (X, m) be the set of all declarations of m in X and the inline namespace set of X (7.3.1). If S 0 (X, m) is not empty, S(X, m) is S 0 (X, m); otherwise, S(X, m) is the union of S(Ni , m) for all namespaces Ni nominated by using-directives in X and its inline namespace set. Given X::m (where X is a user-declared namespace), or given ::m (where X is the global namespace), if S(X, m) is the empty set, the program is ill-formed. Otherwise, if S(X, m) has exactly one member, or if the context of the reference is a using-declaration (7.3.3), S(X, m) is the required set of declarations of m. Otherwise if the use of m is not one that allows a unique declaration to be chosen from S(X, m), the program is ill-formed. [ Example: int x; namespace Y { void f(float); void h(int); } namespace Z { void h(double);
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AB::f(’c’); AB::x++;
AB::i++;
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// // // // // // // // //
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// // // // // // // // // // // // //
x is not declared directly in AB, and is not declared in A or B , so the rules are applied recursively to Y and Z, S is { } so the program is ill-formed i is not declared directly in AB so the rules are applied recursively to A and B, S is { A::i , B::i } so the use is ambiguous and the program is ill-formed h is not declared directly in AB and not declared directly in A or B so the rules are applied recursively to Y and Z, S is { Y::h(int), Z::h(double) } and overload resolution chooses Z::h(double)
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Because each referenced namespace is searched at most once, the following is well-defined: namespace B { int b; } namespace A { using namespace B; int a; } namespace B { using namespace A; } void f() { A::a++; B::a++; A::b++; B::b++; }
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a declared directly in A, S is { A::a} both A and B searched (once), S is { A::a} both A and B searched (once), S is { B::b} b declared directly in B, S is { B::b}
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either introduce the same variable, the same enumerator or a set of functions, the non-type name hides the class or enumeration name if and only if the declarations are from the same namespace; otherwise (the declarations are from different namespaces), the program is ill-formed. [ Example: namespace A { struct x { }; int x; int y; } namespace B { struct y { }; } namespace C { using namespace A; using namespace B; int i = C::x; // OK, A::x (of type int ) int j = C::y; // ambiguous, A::y or B::y } 7
— end example ] In a declaration for a namespace member in which the declarator-id is a qualified-id, given that the qualified-id for the namespace member has the form nested-name-specifier unqualified-id
the unqualified-id shall name a member of the namespace designated by the nested-name-specifier or of an element of the inline namespace set (7.3.1) of that namespace. [ Example: namespace A { namespace B { void f1(int); } using namespace B; } void A::f1(int){ } // ill-formed, f1 is not a member of A
— end example ] However, in such namespace member declarations, the nested-name-specifier may rely on using-directives to implicitly provide the initial part of the nested-name-specifier. [ Example: namespace A { namespace B { void f1(int); } } namespace C { namespace D { void f1(int); } } using namespace A; using namespace C::D; void B::f1(int){ } // OK, defines A::B::f1(int)
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[basic.lookup.elab]
An elaborated-type-specifier (7.1.6.3) may be used to refer to a previously declared class-name or enum-name even though the name has been hidden by a non-type declaration (3.3.10). If the elaborated-type-specifier has no nested-name-specifier, and unless the elaborated-type-specifier appears in a declaration with the following form: class-key attribute-specifier-seqopt identifier ;
the identifier is looked up according to 3.4.1 but ignoring any non-type names that have been declared. If the elaborated-type-specifier is introduced by the enum keyword and this lookup does not find a previously declared type-name, the elaborated-type-specifier is ill-formed. If the elaborated-type-specifier is introduced by the class-key and this lookup does not find a previously declared type-name, or if the elaborated-type-specifier appears in a declaration with the form: class-key attribute-specifier-seqopt identifier ; 3
the elaborated-type-specifier is a declaration that introduces the class-name as described in 3.3.2. If the elaborated-type-specifier has a nested-name-specifier, qualified name lookup is performed, as described in 3.4.3, but ignoring any non-type names that have been declared. If the name lookup does not find a previously declared type-name, the elaborated-type-specifier is ill-formed. [ Example: struct Node { struct Node* Next; struct Data* Data;
// OK: Refers to Node at global scope // OK: Declares type Data // at global scope and member Data
}; struct Data { struct Node* Node; friend struct ::Glob;
// // // //
OK: Refers to Node at global scope error: Glob is not declared cannot introduce a qualified type (7.1.6.3) OK: Refers to (as yet) undeclared Glob
struct Base { struct Data; struct ::Data* thatData; struct Base::Data* thisData; friend class ::Data; friend class Data; struct Data { /* ... */ }; };
// // // // // //
OK: Declares nested Data OK: Refers to ::Data OK: Refers to nested Data OK: global Data is a friend OK: nested Data is a friend Defines nested Data
struct struct struct struct struct
// // // // //
OK: Redeclares Data at global scope error: cannot introduce a qualified type (7.1.6.3) error: cannot introduce a qualified type (7.1.6.3) error: Datum undefined OK: refers to nested Data
friend struct Glob; // at global scope. /∗ ... ∗/ };
Data; ::Data; Base::Data; Base::Datum; Base::Data* pBase;
— end example ]
3.4.5 1
Class member access
[basic.lookup.classref]
In a class member access expression (5.2.5), if the . or -> token is immediately followed by an identifier followed by a ~A(); }
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— end example ] If the id-expression in a class member access is a qualified-id of the form class-name-or-namespace-name::... the class-name-or-namespace-name following the . or -> operator is first looked up in the class of the object expression and the name, if found, is used. Otherwise it is looked up in the context of the entire postfix-expression. [ Note: See 3.4.3, which describes the lookup of a name before ::, which will only find a type or namespace name. — end note ] If the qualified-id has the form ::class-name-or-namespace-name::...
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// calls N::A::operator N::A
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In a using-directive or namespace-alias-definition, during the lookup for a namespace-name or for a name in a nested-name-specifier only namespace names are considered.
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Using-directives and namespace aliases
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Program and linkage
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A program consists of one or more translation units (Clause 2) linked together. A translation unit consists of a sequence of declarations. translation-unit: declaration-seqopt
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A name is said to have linkage when it might denote the same object, reference, function, type, template, namespace or value as a name introduced by a declaration in another scope: — When a name has external linkage , the entity it denotes can be referred to by names from scopes of other translation units or from other scopes of the same translation unit. — When a name has internal linkage , the entity it denotes can be referred to by names from other scopes in the same translation unit. — When a name has no linkage , the entity it denotes cannot be referred to by names from other scopes.
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There are three objects named i in this program. The object with internal linkage introduced by the declaration in global scope (line #1 ), the object with automatic storage duration and no linkage introduced by the declaration on line #2, and the object with static storage duration and external linkage introduced by the declaration on line #3. — end example ] When a block scope declaration of an entity with linkage is not found to refer to some other declaration, then that entity is a member of the innermost enclosing namespace. However such a declaration does not introduce the member name in its namespace scope. [ Example: namespace X { void p() { q(); extern void q(); }
// error: q not yet declared // q is a member of namespace X
void middle() { q(); } void q() { /* ...
// error: q not yet declared
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// some other, unrelated q
— end example ] Names not covered by these rules have no linkage. Moreover, except as noted, a name declared at block scope (3.3.3) has no linkage. A type is said to have linkage if and only if: — it is a class or enumeration type that is named (or has a name for linkage purposes (7.1.3)) and the name has linkage; or — it is an unnamed class or enumeration member of a class with linkage; or — it is a specialization of a class template (14)33 ; or — it is a fundamental type (3.9.1); or — it is a compound type (3.9.2) other than a class or enumeration, compounded exclusively from types that have linkage; or — it is a cv-qualified (3.9.3) version of a type that has linkage. A type without linkage shall not be used as the type of a variable or function with external linkage unless 33) A class template always has external linkage, and the requirements of 14.3.1 and 14.3.2 ensure that the template arguments will also have appropriate linkage.
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— the entity has C language linkage (7.5), or — the entity is declared within an unnamed namespace (7.3.1), or — the entity is not odr-used (3.2) or is defined in the same translation unit. [ Note: In other words, a type without linkage contains a class or enumeration that cannot be named outside its translation unit. An entity with external linkage declared using such a type could not correspond to any other entity in another translation unit of the program and thus must be defined in the translation unit if it is odr-used. Also note that classes with linkage may contain members whose types do not have linkage, and that typedef names are ignored in the determination of whether a type has linkage. — end note ] [ Example: template struct B { void g(T) { } void h(T); friend void i(B, T) { } }; void f() { struct A { int x; }; A a = { 1 }; B ba; ba.g(a); ba.h(a); i(ba, a); } 9
// no linkage // // // //
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— end example ] Two names that are the same (Clause 3) and that are declared in different scopes shall denote the same variable, function, type, enumerator, template or namespace if — both names have external linkage or else both names have internal linkage and are declared in the same translation unit; and — both names refer to members of the same namespace or to members, not by inheritance, of the same class; and — when both names denote functions, the parameter-type-lists of the functions (8.3.5) are identical; and — when both names denote function templates, the signatures (14.5.6.1) are the same.
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3.6
Start and termination
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Main function
[basic.start] [basic.start.main]
A program shall contain a global function called main, which is the designated start of the program. It is implementation-defined whether a program in a freestanding environment is required to define a main function. [ Note: In a freestanding environment, start-up and termination is implementation-defined; startup contains the execution of constructors for objects of namespace scope with static storage duration; termination contains the execution of destructors for objects with static storage duration. — end note ] § 3.6.1
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An implementation shall not predefine the main function. This function shall not be overloaded. It shall have a return type of type int, but otherwise its type is implementation-defined. All implementations shall allow both — a function of () returning int and — a function of (int, pointer to pointer to char) returning int
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as the type of main (8.3.5). In the latter form, for purposes of exposition, the first function parameter is called argc and the second function parameter is called argv, where argc shall be the number of arguments passed to the program from the environment in which the program is run. If argc is nonzero these arguments shall be supplied in argv[0] through argv[argc-1] as pointers to the initial characters of null-terminated multibyte strings (ntmbs s) (17.5.2.1.4.2) and argv[0] shall be the pointer to the initial character of a ntmbs that represents the name used to invoke the program or "". The value of argc shall be non-negative. The value of argv[argc] shall be 0. [ Note: It is recommended that any further (optional) parameters be added after argv. — end note ] The function main shall not be used within a program. The linkage (3.5) of main is implementation-defined. A program that defines main as deleted or that declares main to be inline, static, or constexpr is illformed. The name main is not otherwise reserved. [ Example: member functions, classes, and enumerations can be called main, as can entities in other namespaces. — end example ] Terminating the program without leaving the current block (e.g., by calling the function std::exit(int) (18.5)) does not destroy any objects with automatic storage duration (12.4). If std::exit is called to end a program during the destruction of an object with static or thread storage duration, the program has undefined behavior. A return statement in main has the effect of leaving the main function (destroying any objects with automatic storage duration) and calling std::exit with the return value as the argument. If control reaches the end of main without encountering a return statement, the effect is that of executing return 0;
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[basic.start.init]
There are two broad classes of named non-local variables: those with static storage duration (3.7.1) and those with thread storage duration (3.7.2). Non-local variables with static storage duration are initialized as a consequence of program initiation. Non-local variables with thread storage duration are initialized as a consequence of thread execution. Within each of these phases of initiation, initialization occurs as follows. Variables with static storage duration (3.7.1) or thread storage duration (3.7.2) shall be zero-initialized (8.5) before any other initialization takes place. Constant initialization is performed: — if each full-expression (including implicit conversions) that appears in the initializer of a reference with static or thread storage duration is a constant expression (5.19) and the reference is bound to an lvalue designating an object with static storage duration or to a temporary (see 12.2); — if an object with static or thread storage duration is initialized by a constructor call, if the constructor is a constexpr constructor, if all constructor arguments are constant expressions (including conversions), and if, after function invocation substitution (7.1.5), every constructor call and full-expression in the mem-initializers and in the brace-or-equal-initializers for non-static data members is a constant expression; — if an object with static or thread storage duration is not initialized by a constructor call and if every full-expression that appears in its initializer is a constant expression. Together, zero-initialization and constant initialization are called static initialization; all other initialization is dynamic initialization. Static initialization shall be performed before any dynamic initialization § 3.6.2
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takes place. Dynamic initialization of a non-local variable with static storage duration is either ordered or unordered. Definitions of explicitly specialized class template static data members have ordered initialization. Other class template static data members (i.e., implicitly or explicitly instantiated specializations) have unordered initialization. Other non-local variables with static storage duration have ordered initialization. Variables with ordered initialization defined within a single translation unit shall be initialized in the order of their definitions in the translation unit. If a program starts a thread (30.3), the subsequent initialization of a variable is unsequenced with respect to the initialization of a variable defined in a different translation unit. Otherwise, the initialization of a variable is indeterminately sequenced with respect to the initialization of a variable defined in a different translation unit. If a program starts a thread, the subsequent unordered initialization of a variable is unsequenced with respect to every other dynamic initialization. Otherwise, the unordered initialization of a variable is indeterminately sequenced with respect to every other dynamic initialization. [ Note: This definition permits initialization of a sequence of ordered variables concurrently with another sequence. — end note ] [ Note: The initialization of local static variables is described in 6.7. — end note ] An implementation is permitted to perform the initialization of a non-local variable with static storage duration as a static initialization even if such initialization is not required to be done statically, provided that — the dynamic version of the initialization does not change the value of any other object of namespace scope prior to its initialization, and — the static version of the initialization produces the same value in the initialized variable as would be produced by the dynamic initialization if all variables not required to be initialized statically were initialized dynamically. [ Note: As a consequence, if the initialization of an object obj1 refers to an object obj2 of namespace scope potentially requiring dynamic initialization and defined later in the same translation unit, it is unspecified whether the value of obj2 used will be the value of the fully initialized obj2 (because obj2 was statically initialized) or will be the value of obj2 merely zero-initialized. For example, inline double fd() { return 1.0; } extern double d1; double d2 = d1; // unspecified: // may be statically initialized to 0.0 or // dynamically initialized to 0.0 if d1 is // dynamically initialized, or 1.0 otherwise double d1 = fd(); // may be initialized statically or dynamically to 1.0
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— end note ] It is implementation-defined whether the dynamic initialization of a non-local variable with static storage duration is done before the first statement of main. If the initialization is deferred to some point in time after the first statement of main, it shall occur before the first odr-use (3.2) of any function or variable defined in the same translation unit as the variable to be initialized.34 [ Example: // - File 1 #include "a.h" #include "b.h" B b; A::A(){ b.Use(); } 34) A non-local variable with static storage duration having initialization with side-effects must be initialized even if it is not odr-used (3.2, 3.7.1).
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It is implementation-defined whether either a or b is initialized before main is entered or whether the initializations are delayed until a is first odr-used in main. In particular, if a is initialized before main is entered, it is not guaranteed that b will be initialized before it is odr-used by the initialization of a, that is, before A::A is called. If, however, a is initialized at some point after the first statement of main, b will be initialized prior to its use in A::A. — end example ] It is implementation-defined whether the dynamic initialization of a non-local variable with static or thread storage duration is done before the first statement of the initial function of the thread. If the initialization is deferred to some point in time after the first statement of the initial function of the thread, it shall occur before the first odr-use (3.2) of any variable with thread storage duration defined in the same translation unit as the variable to be initialized. If the initialization of a non-local variable with static or thread storage duration exits via an exception, std::terminate is called (15.5.1).
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Destructors (12.4) for initialized objects (that is, objects whose lifetime (3.8) has begun) with static storage duration are called as a result of returning from main and as a result of calling std::exit (18.5). Destructors for initialized objects with thread storage duration within a given thread are called as a result of returning from the initial function of that thread and as a result of that thread calling std::exit. The completions of the destructors for all initialized objects with thread storage duration within that thread are sequenced before the initiation of the destructors of any object with static storage duration. If the completion of the constructor or dynamic initialization of an object with thread storage duration is sequenced before that of another, the completion of the destructor of the second is sequenced before the initiation of the destructor of the first. If the completion of the constructor or dynamic initialization of an object with static storage duration is sequenced before that of another, the completion of the destructor of the second is sequenced before the initiation of the destructor of the first. [ Note: This definition permits concurrent destruction. — end note ] If an object is initialized statically, the object is destroyed in the same order as if the object was dynamically initialized. For an object of array or class type, all subobjects of that object are destroyed before any block-scope object with static storage duration initialized during the construction of the subobjects is destroyed. If the destruction of an object with static or thread storage duration exits via an exception, std::terminate is called (15.5.1). If a function contains a block-scope object of static or thread storage duration that has been destroyed and the function is called during the destruction of an object with static or thread storage duration, the program has undefined behavior if the flow of control passes through the definition of the previously destroyed blockscope object. Likewise, the behavior is undefined if the block-scope object is used indirectly (i.e., through a pointer) after its destruction. If the completion of the initialization of an object with static storage duration is sequenced before a call to std::atexit (see , 18.5), the call to the function passed to std::atexit is sequenced before § 3.6.3
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the call to the destructor for the object. If a call to std::atexit is sequenced before the completion of the initialization of an object with static storage duration, the call to the destructor for the object is sequenced before the call to the function passed to std::atexit. If a call to std::atexit is sequenced before another call to std::atexit, the call to the function passed to the second std::atexit call is sequenced before the call to the function passed to the first std::atexit call. If there is a use of a standard library object or function not permitted within signal handlers (18.10) that does not happen before (1.10) completion of destruction of objects with static storage duration and execution of std::atexit registered functions (18.5), the program has undefined behavior. [ Note: If there is a use of an object with static storage duration that does not happen before the object’s destruction, the program has undefined behavior. Terminating every thread before a call to std::exit or the exit from main is sufficient, but not necessary, to satisfy these requirements. These requirements permit thread managers as static-storage-duration objects. — end note ] Calling the function std::abort() declared in terminates the program without executing any destructors and without calling the functions passed to std::atexit() or std::at_quick_exit().
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All variables which do not have dynamic storage duration, do not have thread storage duration, and are not local have static storage duration. The storage for these entities shall last for the duration of the program (3.6.2, 3.6.3). If a variable with static storage duration has initialization or a destructor with side effects, it shall not be eliminated even if it appears to be unused, except that a class object or its copy/move may be eliminated as specified in 12.8. The keyword static can be used to declare a local variable with static storage duration. [ Note: 6.7 describes the initialization of local static variables; 3.6.3 describes the destruction of local static variables. — end note ] The keyword static applied to a class data member in a class definition gives the data member static storage duration.
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All variables declared with the thread_local keyword have thread storage duration. The storage for these entities shall last for the duration of the thread in which they are created. There is a distinct object or reference per thread, and use of the declared name refers to the entity associated with the current thread.
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Block-scope variables explicitly declared register or not explicitly declared static or extern have automatic storage duration. The storage for these entities lasts until the block in which they are created exits. [ Note: These variables are initialized and destroyed as described in 6.7. — end note ] If a variable with automatic storage duration has initialization or a destructor with side effects, it shall not be destroyed before the end of its block, nor shall it be eliminated as an optimization even if it appears to be unused, except that a class object or its copy/move may be eliminated as specified in 12.8.
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Objects can be created dynamically during program execution (1.9), using new-expressions (5.3.4), and destroyed using delete-expressions (5.3.5). A C++ implementation provides access to, and management of, dynamic storage via the global allocation functions operator new and operator new[] and the global deallocation functions operator delete and operator delete[]. The library provides default definitions for the global allocation and deallocation functions. Some global allocation and deallocation functions are replaceable (18.6.1). A C++ program shall provide at most one definition of a replaceable allocation or deallocation function. Any such function definition replaces the default version provided in the library (17.6.4.6). The following allocation and deallocation functions (18.6) are implicitly declared in global scope in each translation unit of a program. void* operator new(std::size_t); void* operator new[](std::size_t); void operator delete(void*); void operator delete[](void*);
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a corresponding deallocation function). Even if the size of the space requested is zero, the request can fail. If the request succeeds, the value returned shall be a non-null pointer value (4.10) p0 different from any previously returned value p1, unless that value p1 was subsequently passed to an operator delete. The effect of dereferencing a pointer returned as a request for zero size is undefined.35 An allocation function that fails to allocate storage can invoke the currently installed new-handler function (18.6.2.3), if any. [ Note: A program-supplied allocation function can obtain the address of the currently installed new_handler using the std::get_new_handler function (18.6.2.4). — end note ] If an allocation function declared with a non-throwing exception-specification (15.4) fails to allocate storage, it shall return a null pointer. Any other allocation function that fails to allocate storage shall indicate failure only by throwing an exception of a type that would match a handler (15.3) of type std::bad_alloc (18.6.2.1). A global allocation function is only called as the result of a new expression (5.3.4), or called directly using the function call syntax (5.2.2), or called indirectly through calls to the functions in the C++ standard library. [ Note: In particular, a global allocation function is not called to allocate storage for objects with static storage duration (3.7.1), for objects or references with thread storage duration (3.7.2), for objects of type std::type_info (5.2.8), or for the copy of an object thrown by a throw expression (15.1). — end note ] 3.7.4.2 Deallocation functions [basic.stc.dynamic.deallocation] Deallocation functions shall be class member functions or global functions; a program is ill-formed if deallocation functions are declared in a namespace scope other than global scope or declared static in global scope. Each deallocation function shall return void and its first parameter shall be void*. A deallocation function can have more than one parameter. If a class T has a member deallocation function named operator delete with exactly one parameter, then that function is a usual (non-placement) deallocation function. If class T does not declare such an operator delete but does declare a member deallocation function named operator delete with exactly two parameters, the second of which has type std::size_t (18.2), then this function is a usual deallocation function. Similarly, if a class T has a member deallocation function named operator delete[] with exactly one parameter, then that function is a usual (non-placement) deallocation function. If class T does not declare such an operator delete[] but does declare a member deallocation function named operator delete[] with exactly two parameters, the second of which has type std::size_t, then this function is a usual deallocation function. A deallocation function can be an instance of a function template. Neither the first parameter nor the return type shall depend on a template parameter. [ Note: That is, a deallocation function template shall have a first parameter of type void* and a return type of void (as specified above). — end note ] A deallocation function template shall have two or more function parameters. A template instance is never a usual deallocation function, regardless of its signature. If a deallocation function terminates by throwing an exception, the behavior is undefined. The value of the first argument supplied to a deallocation function may be a null pointer value; if so, and if the deallocation function is one supplied in the standard library, the call has no effect. Otherwise, the behavior is undefined if the value supplied to operator delete(void*) in the standard library is not one of the values returned by a previous invocation of either operator new(std::size_t) or operator new(std::size_t, const std::nothrow_t&) in the standard library, and the behavior is undefined if the value supplied to operator delete[](void*) in the standard library is not one of the values returned by a previous invocation of either operator new[](std::size_t) or operator new[](std::size_t, const std::nothrow_t&) in the standard library. If the argument given to a deallocation function in the standard library is a pointer that is not the null pointer value (4.10), the deallocation function shall deallocate the storage referenced by the pointer, rendering invalid all pointers referring to any part of the deallocated storage. The effect of using an invalid pointer value 35) The intent is to have operator new() implementable by calling std::malloc() or std::calloc(), so the rules are substantially the same. C++ differs from C in requiring a zero request to return a non-null pointer.
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A traceable pointer object is — an object of an object pointer type (3.9.2), or — an object of an integral type that is at least as large as std::intptr_t, or — a sequence of elements in an array of character type, where the size and alignment of the sequence match those of some object pointer type.
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maintains the ability of many C++ implementations to use binary libraries and components written in other languages. In particular, this applies to C binaries, because dereferencing pointers to memory allocated by malloc is not restricted.
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The lifetime of an object is a runtime property of the object. An object is said to have non-trivial initialization if it is of a class or aggregate type and it or one of its members is initialized by a constructor other than a trivial default constructor. [ Note: initialization by a trivial copy/move constructor is non-trivial initialization. — end note ] The lifetime of an object of type T begins when: — storage with the proper alignment and size for type T is obtained, and — if the object has non-trivial initialization, its initialization is complete. The lifetime of an object of type T ends when: — if T is a class type with a non-trivial destructor (12.4), the destructor call starts, or — the storage which the object occupies is reused or released.
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[ Note: The lifetime of an array object starts as soon as storage with proper size and alignment is obtained, and its lifetime ends when the storage which the array occupies is reused or released. 12.6.2 describes the lifetime of base and member subobjects. — end note ] The properties ascribed to objects throughout this International Standard apply for a given object only during its lifetime. [ Note: In particular, before the lifetime of an object starts and after its lifetime ends there are significant restrictions on the use of the object, as described below, in 12.6.2 and in 12.7. Also, the behavior of an object under construction and destruction might not be the same as the behavior of an object whose lifetime has started and not ended. 12.6.2 and 12.7 describe the behavior of objects during the construction and destruction phases. — end note ] A program may end the lifetime of any object by reusing the storage which the object occupies or by explicitly calling the destructor for an object of a class type with a non-trivial destructor. For an object of a class type with a non-trivial destructor, the program is not required to call the destructor explicitly before the storage which the object occupies is reused or released; however, if there is no explicit call to the destructor or if a delete-expression (5.3.5) is not used to release the storage, the destructor shall not be implicitly called and any program that depends on the side effects produced by the destructor has undefined behavior. Before the lifetime of an object has started but after the storage which the object will occupy has been allocated38 or, after the lifetime of an object has ended and before the storage which the object occupied is reused or released, any pointer that refers to the storage location where the object will be or was located may be used but only in limited ways. For an object under construction or destruction, see 12.7. Otherwise, such a pointer refers to allocated storage (3.7.4.2), and using the pointer as if the pointer were of type void*, is well-defined. Such a pointer may be dereferenced but the resulting lvalue may only be used in limited ways, as described below. The program has undefined behavior if: — the object will be or was of a class type with a non-trivial destructor and the pointer is used as the operand of a delete-expression, — the pointer is used to access a non-static data member or call a non-static member function of the object, or — the pointer is implicitly converted (4.10) to a pointer to a virtual base class, or — the pointer is used as the operand of a static_cast (5.2.9), except when the conversion is to pointer to cv void, or to pointer to cv void and subsequently to pointer to either cv char or cv unsigned char, or 38) For example, before the construction of a global object of non-POD class type (12.7).
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— the pointer is used as the operand of a dynamic_cast (5.2.7). [ Example: #include struct B { virtual void f(); void mutate(); virtual ~B(); }; struct D1 : B { void f(); }; struct D2 : B { void f(); }; void B::mutate() { new (this) D2; f(); ... = this; }
// reuses storage — ends the lifetime of *this // undefined behavior // OK, this points to valid memory
void g() { void* p = std::malloc(sizeof(D1) + sizeof(D2)); B* pb = new (p) D1; pb->mutate(); &pb; // OK: pb points to valid memory void* q = pb; // OK: pb points to valid memory pb->f(); // undefined behavior, lifetime of *pb has ended }
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Similarly, before the lifetime of an object has started but after the storage which the object will occupy has been allocated or, after the lifetime of an object has ended and before the storage which the object occupied is reused or released, any glvalue that refers to the original object may be used but only in limited ways. For an object under construction or destruction, see 12.7. Otherwise, such a glvalue refers to allocated storage (3.7.4.2), and using the properties of the glvalue that do not depend on its value is well-defined. The program has undefined behavior if: — an lvalue-to-rvalue conversion (4.1) is applied to such a glvalue, — the glvalue is used to access a non-static data member or call a non-static member function of the object, or — the glvalue is bound to a reference to a virtual base class (8.5.3), or — the glvalue is used as the operand of a dynamic_cast (5.2.7) or as the operand of typeid.
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// well-defined // well-defined; c1 refers to a new object of type C
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If a program ends the lifetime of an object of type T with static (3.7.1), thread (3.7.2), or automatic (3.7.3) storage duration and if T has a non-trivial destructor,39 the program must ensure that an object of the original type occupies that same storage location when the implicit destructor call takes place; otherwise the behavior of the program is undefined. This is true even if the block is exited with an exception. [ Example: class T { }; struct B { ~B(); }; void h() { B b; new (&b) T; }
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— end example ] Creating a new object at the storage location that a const object with static, thread, or automatic storage duration occupies or, at the storage location that such a const object used to occupy before its lifetime ended results in undefined behavior. [ Example: struct B { B(); ~B(); }; 39) That is, an object for which a destructor will be called implicitly—upon exit from the block for an object with automatic storage duration, upon exit from the thread for an object with thread storage duration, or upon exit from the program for an object with static storage duration.
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— end example ] In this section, “before” and “after” refer to the “happens before” relation (1.10). [ Note: Therefore, undefined behavior results if an object that is being constructed in one thread is referenced from another thread without adequate synchronization. — end note ]
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[ Note: 3.9 and the subclauses thereof impose requirements on implementations regarding the representation of types. There are two kinds of types: fundamental types and compound types. Types describe objects (1.8), references (8.3.2), or functions (8.3.5). — end note ] For any object (other than a base-class subobject) of trivially copyable type T, whether or not the object holds a valid value of type T, the underlying bytes (1.7) making up the object can be copied into an array of char or unsigned char.40 If the content of the array of char or unsigned char is copied back into the object, the object shall subsequently hold its original value. [ Example: #define N sizeof(T) char buf[N]; T obj; std::memcpy(buf, &obj, N); std::memcpy(&obj, buf, N);
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— end example ] For any trivially copyable type T, if two pointers to T point to distinct T objects obj1 and obj2, where neither obj1 nor obj2 is a base-class subobject, if the underlying bytes (1.7) making up obj1 are copied into obj2,41 obj2 shall subsequently hold the same value as obj1. [ Example: T* t1p; T* t2p; // provided that t2p points to an initialized object ... std::memcpy(t1p, t2p, sizeof(T)); // at this point, every subobject of trivially copyable type in *t1p contains // the same value as the corresponding subobject in *t2p
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By using, for example, the library functions (17.6.1.2) std::memcpy or std::memmove. By using, for example, the library functions (17.6.1.2) std::memcpy or std::memmove. The intent is that the memory model of C++ is compatible with that of ISO/IEC 9899 Programming Language C. The size and layout of an instance of an incompletely-defined object type is unknown.
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— end example ] [ Note: The rules for declarations and expressions describe in which contexts incomplete types are prohibited. — end note ] An object type is a (possibly cv-qualified) type that is not a function type, not a reference type, and not a void type. Arithmetic types (3.9.1), enumeration types, pointer types, pointer to member types (3.9.2), std::nullptr_t, and cv-qualified versions of these types (3.9.3) are collectively called scalar types. Scalar types, POD classes (Clause 9), arrays of such types and cv-qualified versions of these types (3.9.3) are collectively called POD types. Scalar types, trivially copyable class types (Clause 9), arrays of such types, and cv-qualified versions of these types (3.9.3) are collectively called trivially copyable types. Scalar types, trivial class types (Clause 9), arrays of such types and cv-qualified versions of these types (3.9.3) are collectively called trivial types. Scalar types, standard-layout class types (Clause 9), arrays of such types and cv-qualified versions of these types (3.9.3) are collectively called standard-layout types. A type is a literal type if it is: — a scalar type; or — a reference type referring to a literal type; or — an array of literal type; or — a class type (Clause 9) that has all of the following properties:
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If two types T1 and T2 are the same type, then T1 and T2 are layout-compatible types. [ Note: Layoutcompatible enumerations are described in 7.2. Layout-compatible standard-layout structs and standardlayout unions are described in 9.2. — end note ]
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Objects declared as characters (char) shall be large enough to store any member of the implementation’s basic character set. If a character from this set is stored in a character object, the integral value of that character object is equal to the value of the single character literal form of that character. It is implementation-defined whether a char object can hold negative values. Characters can be explicitly declared unsigned or signed. Plain char, signed char, and unsigned char are three distinct types. A char, a signed char, and an unsigned char occupy the same amount of storage and have the same alignment requirements (3.11); that is, they have the same object representation. For character types, all bits of the object representation participate in the value representation. For unsigned character types, all possible bit patterns of the value representation represent numbers. These requirements do not hold for other types. In any particular implementation, a plain char object can take on either the same values as a signed char or an unsigned char; which one is implementation-defined. There are five standard signed integer types : “signed char”, “short int”, “int”, “long int”, and “long long int”. In this list, each type provides at least as much storage as those preceding it in the list. There may also be implementation-defined extended signed integer types. The standard and extended signed integer types are collectively called signed integer types. Plain ints have the natural size suggested by the architecture of the execution environment44 ; the other signed integer types are provided to meet special needs. For each of the standard signed integer types, there exists a corresponding (but different) standard unsigned integer type: “unsigned char”, “unsigned short int”, “unsigned int”, “unsigned long int”, and “unsigned long long int”, each of which occupies the same amount of storage and has the same alignment requirements (3.11) as the corresponding signed integer type45 ; that is, each signed integer type has the same object representation as its corresponding unsigned integer type. Likewise, for each of the extended signed integer types there exists a corresponding extended unsigned integer type with the same amount of storage and alignment requirements. The standard and extended unsigned integer types are collectively called unsigned integer types. The range of non-negative values of a signed integer type is a subrange of the corresponding unsigned integer type, and the value representation of each corresponding signed/unsigned type shall be the same. The standard signed integer types and standard unsigned integer types are collectively called the standard integer types, and the extended signed integer types and extended unsigned integer types are collectively called the extended integer types. The signed and unsigned integral types shall satisfy the constraints given in the C standard, section 5.2.4.2.1. Unsigned integers, declared unsigned, shall obey the laws of arithmetic modulo 2n where n is the number of bits in the value representation of that particular size of integer.46 44) that is, large enough to contain any value in the range of INT_MIN and INT_MAX, as defined in the header . 45) See 7.1.6.2 regarding the correspondence between types and the sequences of type-specifiers that designate them. 46) This implies that unsigned arithmetic does not overflow because a result that cannot be represented by the resulting
unsigned integer type is reduced modulo the number that is one greater than the largest value that can be represented by the resulting unsigned integer type.
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Type wchar_t is a distinct type whose values can represent distinct codes for all members of the largest extended character set specified among the supported locales (22.3.1). Type wchar_t shall have the same size, signedness, and alignment requirements (3.11) as one of the other integral types, called its underlying type. Types char16_t and char32_t denote distinct types with the same size, signedness, and alignment as uint_least16_t and uint_least32_t, respectively, in , called the underlying types. Values of type bool are either true or false.47 [ Note: There are no signed, unsigned, short, or long bool types or values. — end note ] Values of type bool participate in integral promotions (4.5). Types bool, char, char16_t, char32_t, wchar_t, and the signed and unsigned integer types are collectively called integral types.48 A synonym for integral type is integer type. The representations of integral types shall define values by use of a pure binary numeration system.49 [ Example: this International Standard permits 2’s complement, 1’s complement and signed magnitude representations for integral types. — end example ] There are three floating point types: float, double, and long double. The type double provides at least as much precision as float, and the type long double provides at least as much precision as double. The set of values of the type float is a subset of the set of values of the type double; the set of values of the type double is a subset of the set of values of the type long double. The value representation of floating-point types is implementation-defined. Integral and floating types are collectively called arithmetic types. Specializations of the standard template std::numeric_limits (18.3) shall specify the maximum and minimum values of each arithmetic type for an implementation. The void type has an empty set of values. The void type is an incomplete type that cannot be completed. It is used as the return type for functions that do not return a value. Any expression can be explicitly converted to type cv void (5.4). An expression of type void shall be used only as an expression statement (6.2), as an operand of a comma expression (5.18), as a second or third operand of ?: (5.16), as the operand of typeid or decltype, as the expression in a return statement (6.6.3) for a function with the return type void, or as the operand of an explicit conversion to type cv void. A value of type std::nullptr_t is a null pointer constant (4.10). Such values participate in the pointer and the pointer to member conversions (4.10, 4.11). sizeof(std::nullptr_t) shall be equal to sizeof(void*). [ Note: Even if the implementation defines two or more basic types to have the same value representation, they are nevertheless different types. — end note ]
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Compound types can be constructed in the following ways: — arrays of objects of a given type, 8.3.4; — functions, which have parameters of given types and return void or references or objects of a given type, 8.3.5; — pointers to void or objects or functions (including static members of classes) of a given type, 8.3.1; — references to objects or functions of a given type, 8.3.2. There are two types of references: — lvalue reference — rvalue reference — classes containing a sequence of objects of various types (Clause 9), a set of types, enumerations and functions for manipulating these objects (9.3), and a set of restrictions on the access to these entities (Clause 11); 47) Using a bool value in ways described by this International Standard as “undefined,” such as by examining the value of an uninitialized automatic object, might cause it to behave as if it is neither true nor false. 48) Therefore, enumerations (7.2) are not integral; however, enumerations can be promoted to integral types as specified in 4.5. 49) A positional representation for integers that uses the binary digits 0 and 1, in which the values represented by successive bits are additive, begin with 1, and are multiplied by successive integral power of 2, except perhaps for the bit with the highest position. (Adapted from the American National Dictionary for Information Processing Systems.)
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These methods of constructing types can be applied recursively; restrictions are mentioned in 8.3.1, 8.3.4, 8.3.5, and 8.3.2. The type of a pointer to void or a pointer to an object type is called an object pointer type. [ Note: A pointer to void does not have a pointer-to-object type, however, because void is not an object type. — end note ] The type of a pointer that can designate a function is called a function pointer type. A pointer to objects of type T is referred to as a “pointer to T.” [ Example: a pointer to an object of type int is referred to as “pointer to int ” and a pointer to an object of class X is called a “pointer to X.” — end example ] Except for pointers to static members, text referring to “pointers” does not apply to pointers to members. Pointers to incomplete types are allowed although there are restrictions on what can be done with them (3.11). A valid value of an object pointer type represents either the address of a byte in memory (1.7) or a null pointer (4.10). If an object of type T is located at an address A, a pointer of type cv T* whose value is the address A is said to point to that object, regardless of how the value was obtained. [ Note: For instance, the address one past the end of an array (5.7) would be considered to point to an unrelated object of the array’s element type that might be located at that address. There are further restrictions on pointers to objects with dynamic storage duration; see 3.7.4.3. — end note ] The value representation of pointer types is implementation-defined. Pointers to cv-qualified and cv-unqualified versions (3.9.3) of layout-compatible types shall have the same value representation and alignment requirements (3.11). [ Note: Pointers to over-aligned types (3.11) have no special representation, but their range of valid values is restricted by the extended alignment requirement. This International Standard specifies only two ways of obtaining such a pointer: taking the address of a valid object with an over-aligned type, and using one of the runtime pointer alignment functions. An implementation may provide other means of obtaining a valid pointer value for an over-aligned type. — end note ] A pointer to cv-qualified (3.9.3) or cv-unqualified void can be used to point to objects of unknown type. Such a pointer shall be able to hold any object pointer. An object of type cv void* shall have the same representation and alignment requirements as cv char*.
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CV-qualifiers
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A type mentioned in 3.9.1 and 3.9.2 is a cv-unqualified type. Each type which is a cv-unqualified complete or incomplete object type or is void (3.9) has three corresponding cv-qualified versions of its type: a const-qualified version, a volatile-qualified version, and a const-volatile-qualified version. The term object type (1.8) includes the cv-qualifiers specified when the object is created. The presence of a const specifier in a decl-specifier-seq declares an object of const-qualified object type; such object is called a const object. The presence of a volatile specifier in a decl-specifier-seq declares an object of volatile-qualified object type; such object is called a volatile object. The presence of both cv-qualifiers in a decl-specifier-seq declares an object of const-volatile-qualified object type; such object is called a const volatile object. The cv-qualified or cv-unqualified versions of a type are distinct types; however, they shall have the same representation and alignment requirements (3.9).51 A compound type (3.9.2) is not cv-qualified by the cv-qualifiers (if any) of the types from which it is compounded. Any cv-qualifiers applied to an array type affect the array element type, not the array type (8.3.4). 50) Static class members are objects or functions, and pointers to them are ordinary pointers to objects or functions. 51) The same representation and alignment requirements are meant to imply interchangeability as arguments to functions,
return values from functions, and non-static data members of unions.
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Each non-static, non-mutable, non-reference data member of a const-qualified class object is const-qualified, each non-static, non-reference data member of a volatile-qualified class object is volatile-qualified and similarly for members of a const-volatile class. See 8.3.5 and 9.3.2 regarding function types that have cv-qualifiers. There is a partial ordering on cv-qualifiers, so that a type can be said to be more cv-qualified than another. Table 9 shows the relations that constitute this ordering. Table 9 — Relations on const and volatile no cv-qualifier no cv-qualifier no cv-qualifier const volatile
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In this International Standard, the notation cv (or cv1 , cv2 , etc.), used in the description of types, represents an arbitrary set of cv-qualifiers, i.e., one of {const}, {volatile}, {const, volatile}, or the empty set. Cv-qualifiers applied to an array type attach to the underlying element type, so the notation “cv T,” where T is an array type, refers to an array whose elements are so-qualified. Such array types can be said to be more (or less) cv-qualified than other types based on the cv-qualification of the underlying element types.
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0 such that: T1 is cv 1,0 pointer to cv 1,1 pointer to · · · cv 1,n−1 pointer to cv 1,n T and T2 is cv 2,0 pointer to cv 2,1 pointer to · · · cv 2,n−1 pointer to cv 2,n T where each cv i,j is const, volatile, const volatile, or nothing. The n-tuple of cv-qualifiers after the first in a pointer type, e.g., cv 1,1 , cv 1,2 , · · · , cv 1,n in the pointer type T1 , is called the cv-qualification signature of the pointer type. An expression of type T1 can be converted to type T2 if and only if the following conditions are satisfied: — the pointer types are similar. — for every j > 0, if const is in cv 1,j then const is in cv 2,j , and similarly for volatile. 53) For historical reasons, this conversion is called the “lvalue-to-rvalue” conversion, even though that name does not accurately reflect the taxonomy of expressions described in 3.10. 54) In C++ class prvalues can have cv-qualified types (because they are objects). This differs from ISO C, in which non-lvalues never have cv-qualified types. 55) This conversion never applies to non-static member functions because an lvalue that refers to a non-static member function cannot be obtained. 56) These rules ensure that const-safety is preserved by the conversion.
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A prvalue of an integer type other than bool, char16_t, char32_t, or wchar_t whose integer conversion rank (4.13) is less than the rank of int can be converted to a prvalue of type int if int can represent all the values of the source type; otherwise, the source prvalue can be converted to a prvalue of type unsigned int. A prvalue of type char16_t, char32_t, or wchar_t (3.9.1) can be converted to a prvalue of the first of the following types that can represent all the values of its underlying type: int, unsigned int, long int, unsigned long int, long long int, or unsigned long long int. If none of the types in that list can represent all the values of its underlying type, a prvalue of type char16_t, char32_t, or wchar_t can be converted to a prvalue of its underlying type. A prvalue of an unscoped enumeration type whose underlying type is not fixed (7.2) can be converted to a prvalue of the first of the following types that can represent all the values of the enumeration (i.e., the values in the range bmin to bmax as described in 7.2): int, unsigned int, long int, unsigned long int, long long int, or unsigned long long int. If none of the types in that list can represent all the values of the enumeration, a prvalue of an unscoped enumeration type can be converted to a prvalue of the extended integer type with lowest integer conversion rank (4.13) greater than the rank of long long in which all the values of the enumeration can be represented. If there are two such extended types, the signed one is chosen. A prvalue of an unscoped enumeration type whose underlying type is fixed (7.2) can be converted to a prvalue of its underlying type. Moreover, if integral promotion can be applied to its underlying type, a § 4.5
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Floating-integral conversions
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A prvalue of a floating point type can be converted to a prvalue of an integer type. The conversion truncates; that is, the fractional part is discarded. The behavior is undefined if the truncated value cannot be represented in the destination type. [ Note: If the destination type is bool, see 4.12. — end note ] A prvalue of an integer type or of an unscoped enumeration type can be converted to a prvalue of a floating point type. The result is exact if possible. If the value being converted is in the range of values that can be represented but the value cannot be represented exactly, it is an implementation-defined choice of either the next lower or higher representable value. [ Note: Loss of precision occurs if the integral value cannot be represented exactly as a value of the floating type. — end note ] If the value being converted is outside the range of values that can be represented, the behavior is undefined. If the source type is bool, the value false is converted to zero and the value true is converted to one.
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A prvalue of floating point type can be converted to a prvalue of another floating point type. If the source value can be exactly represented in the destination type, the result of the conversion is that exact representation. If the source value is between two adjacent destination values, the result of the conversion is an implementation-defined choice of either of those values. Otherwise, the behavior is undefined. The conversions allowed as floating point promotions are excluded from the set of floating point conversions.
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A prvalue of an integer type can be converted to a prvalue of another integer type. A prvalue of an unscoped enumeration type can be converted to a prvalue of an integer type. If the destination type is unsigned, the resulting value is the least unsigned integer congruent to the source integer (modulo 2n where n is the number of bits used to represent the unsigned type). [ Note: In a two’s complement representation, this conversion is conceptual and there is no change in the bit pattern (if there is no truncation). — end note ] If the destination type is signed, the value is unchanged if it can be represented in the destination type (and bit-field width); otherwise, the value is implementation-defined. If the destination type is bool, see 4.12. If the source type is bool, the value false is converted to zero and the value true is converted to one. The conversions allowed as integral promotions are excluded from the set of integral conversions.
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A prvalue of type float can be converted to a prvalue of type double. The value is unchanged. This conversion is called floating point promotion.
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[conv.ptr]
A null pointer constant is an integral constant expression (5.19) prvalue of integer type that evaluates to zero or a prvalue of type std::nullptr_t. A null pointer constant can be converted to a pointer type; the result is the null pointer value of that type and is distinguishable from every other value of object pointer or function pointer type. Such a conversion is called a null pointer conversion. Two null pointer values of the same type shall compare equal. The conversion of a null pointer constant to a pointer to cv-qualified type is a single conversion, and not the sequence of a pointer conversion followed by a qualification conversion (4.4).
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A null pointer constant of integral type can be converted to a prvalue of type std::nullptr_t. [ Note: The resulting prvalue is not a null pointer value. — end note ] A prvalue of type “pointer to cv T,” where T is an object type, can be converted to a prvalue of type “pointer to cv void”. The result of converting a “pointer to cv T” to a “pointer to cv void” points to the start of the storage location where the object of type T resides, as if the object is a most derived object (1.8) of type T (that is, not a base class subobject). The null pointer value is converted to the null pointer value of the destination type. A prvalue of type “pointer to cv D”, where D is a class type, can be converted to a prvalue of type “pointer to cv B”, where B is a base class (Clause 10) of D. If B is an inaccessible (Clause 11) or ambiguous (10.2) base class of D, a program that necessitates this conversion is ill-formed. The result of the conversion is a pointer to the base class subobject of the derived class object. The null pointer value is converted to the null pointer value of the destination type.
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Boolean conversions
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A prvalue of arithmetic, unscoped enumeration, pointer, or pointer to member type can be converted to a prvalue of type bool. A zero value, null pointer value, or null member pointer value is converted to false; any other value is converted to true. A prvalue of type std::nullptr_t can be converted to a prvalue of type bool; the resulting value is false.
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A null pointer constant (4.10) can be converted to a pointer to member type; the result is the null member pointer value of that type and is distinguishable from any pointer to member not created from a null pointer constant. Such a conversion is called a null member pointer conversion. Two null member pointer values of the same type shall compare equal. The conversion of a null pointer constant to a pointer to member of cv-qualified type is a single conversion, and not the sequence of a pointer to member conversion followed by a qualification conversion (4.4). A prvalue of type “pointer to member of B of type cv T”, where B is a class type, can be converted to a prvalue of type “pointer to member of D of type cv T”, where D is a derived class (Clause 10) of B. If B is an inaccessible (Clause 11), ambiguous (10.2), or virtual (10.1) base class of D, or a base class of a virtual base class of D, a program that necessitates this conversion is ill-formed. The result of the conversion refers to the same member as the pointer to member before the conversion took place, but it refers to the base class member as if it were a member of the derived class. The result refers to the member in D’s instance of B. Since the result has type “pointer to member of D of type cv T”, it can be dereferenced with a D object. The result is the same as if the pointer to member of B were dereferenced with the B subobject of D. The null member pointer value is converted to the null member pointer value of the destination type.57
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Every integer type has an integer conversion rank defined as follows: — No two signed integer types other than char and signed char (if char is signed) shall have the same rank, even if they have the same representation. — The rank of a signed integer type shall be greater than the rank of any signed integer type with a smaller size. — The rank of long long int shall be greater than the rank of long int, which shall be greater than the rank of int, which shall be greater than the rank of short int, which shall be greater than the rank of signed char. — The rank of any unsigned integer type shall equal the rank of the corresponding signed integer type. 57) The rule for conversion of pointers to members (from pointer to member of base to pointer to member of derived) appears inverted compared to the rule for pointers to objects (from pointer to derived to pointer to base) (4.10, Clause 10). This inversion is necessary to ensure type safety. Note that a pointer to member is not an object pointer or a function pointer and the rules for conversions of such pointers do not apply to pointers to members. In particular, a pointer to member cannot be converted to a void*.
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— The rank of any standard integer type shall be greater than the rank of any extended integer type with the same size. — The rank of char shall equal the rank of signed char and unsigned char. — The rank of bool shall be less than the rank of all other standard integer types. — The ranks of char16_t, char32_t, and wchar_t shall equal the ranks of their underlying types (3.9.1). — The rank of any extended signed integer type relative to another extended signed integer type with the same size is implementation-defined, but still subject to the other rules for determining the integer conversion rank. — For all integer types T1, T2, and T3, if T1 has greater rank than T2 and T2 has greater rank than T3, then T1 shall have greater rank than T3. [ Note: The integer conversion rank is used in the definition of the integral promotions (4.5) and the usual arithmetic conversions (Clause 5). — end note ]
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[ Note: Clause 5 defines the syntax, order of evaluation, and meaning of expressions.58 An expression is a sequence of operators and operands that specifies a computation. An expression can result in a value and can cause side effects. — end note ] [ Note: Operators can be overloaded, that is, given meaning when applied to expressions of class type (Clause 9) or enumeration type (7.2). Uses of overloaded operators are transformed into function calls as described in 13.5. Overloaded operators obey the rules for syntax specified in Clause 5, but the requirements of operand type, value category, and evaluation order are replaced by the rules for function call. Relations between operators, such as ++a meaning a+=1, are not guaranteed for overloaded operators (13.5), and are not guaranteed for operands of type bool. — end note ] Clause 5 defines the effects of operators when applied to types for which they have not been overloaded. Operator overloading shall not modify the rules for the built-in operators, that is, for operators applied to types for which they are defined by this Standard. However, these built-in operators participate in overload resolution, and as part of that process user-defined conversions will be considered where necessary to convert the operands to types appropriate for the built-in operator. If a built-in operator is selected, such conversions will be applied to the operands before the operation is considered further according to the rules in Clause 5; see 13.3.1.2, 13.6. If during the evaluation of an expression, the result is not mathematically defined or not in the range of representable values for its type, the behavior is undefined. [ Note: most existing implementations of C++ ignore integer overflows. Treatment of division by zero, forming a remainder using a zero divisor, and all floating point exceptions vary among machines, and is usually adjustable by a library function. — end note ] If an expression initially has the type “reference to T” (8.3.2, 8.5.3), the type is adjusted to T prior to any further analysis. The expression designates the object or function denoted by the reference, and the expression is an lvalue or an xvalue, depending on the expression. [ Note: An expression is an xvalue if it is: — the result of calling a function, whether implicitly or explicitly, whose return type is an rvalue reference to object type, — a cast to an rvalue reference to object type, — a class member access expression designating a non-static data member of non-reference type in which the object expression is an xvalue, or — a .* pointer-to-member expression in which the first operand is an xvalue and the second operand is a pointer to data member. In general, the effect of this rule is that named rvalue references are treated as lvalues and unnamed rvalue references to objects are treated as xvalues; rvalue references to functions are treated as lvalues whether named or not. — end note ] [ Example: struct A { int m; }; A&& operator+(A, A); A&& f(); 58) The precedence of operators is not directly specified, but it can be derived from the syntax.
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— class member access (5.2.5), — indirection (5.3.1), — pointer-to-member operation (5.5), — conditional expression (5.16) where both the second and the third operands are one of the above, or — comma expression (5.18) where the right operand is one of the above. 11
The values of the floating operands and the results of floating expressions may be represented in greater precision and range than that required by the type; the types are not changed thereby.60
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Primary expressions
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primary-expression: literal this ( expression ) id-expression lambda-expression id-expression: unqualified-id qualified-id unqualified-id: identifier operator-function-id conversion-function-id literal-operator-id ~ class-name ~ decltype-specifier template-id 1
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A literal is a primary expression. Its type depends on its form (2.14). A string literal is an lvalue; all other literals are prvalues. The keyword this names a pointer to the object for which a non-static member function (9.3.2) is invoked or a non-static data member’s initializer (9.2) is evaluated. If a declaration declares a member function or member function template of a class X, the expression this is a prvalue of type “pointer to cv-qualifier-seq X” between the optional cv-qualifer-seq and the end of the function-definition, member-declarator, or declarator. It shall not appear before the optional cv-qualifier-seq and it shall not appear within the declaration of a static member function (although its type and value category are defined within a static member function as they are within a non-static member function). [ Note: this is because declaration matching does not occur until the complete declarator is known. — end note ] Unlike the object expression in other contexts, *this is not required to be of complete type for purposes of class member access (5.2.5) outside the member function body. [ Note: only class members declared prior to the declaration are visible. — end note ] [ Example: struct A { char g(); template auto f(T t) -> decltype(t + g()) { return t + g(); } }; template auto A::f(int t) -> decltype(t + g()); 60) The cast and assignment operators must still perform their specific conversions as described in 5.4, 5.2.9 and 5.17.
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— end example ] Otherwise, if a member-declarator declares a non-static data member (9.2) of a class X, the expression this is a prvalue of type “pointer to X” within the optional brace-or-equal-initializer. It shall not appear elsewhere in the member-declarator. The expression this shall not appear in any other context. [ Example: class Outer { int a[sizeof(*this)]; unsigned int sz = sizeof(*this); void f() { int b[sizeof(*this)]; struct Inner { int c[sizeof(*this)]; };
// error: not inside a member function // OK: in brace-or-equal-initializer
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— end example ] A parenthesized expression is a primary expression whose type and value are identical to those of the enclosed expression. The presence of parentheses does not affect whether the expression is an lvalue. The parenthesized expression can be used in exactly the same contexts as those where the enclosed expression can be used, and with the same meaning, except as otherwise indicated. An id-expression is a restricted form of a primary-expression. [ Note: an id-expression can appear after . and -> operators (5.2.5). — end note ] An identifier is an id-expression provided it has been suitably declared (Clause 7). [ Note: for operatorfunction-ids, see 13.5; for conversion-function-ids, see 12.3.2; for literal-operator-ids, see 13.5.8; for templateids, see 14.2. A class-name or decltype-specifier prefixed by ~ denotes a destructor; see 12.4. Within the definition of a non-static member function, an identifier that names a non-static member is transformed to a class member access expression (9.3.1). — end note ] The type of the expression is the type of the identifier. The result is the entity denoted by the identifier. The result is an lvalue if the entity is a function, variable, or data member and a prvalue otherwise.
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qualified-id: nested-name-specifier templateopt unqualified-id :: identifier :: operator-function-id :: literal-operator-id :: template-id nested-name-specifier: ::opt type-name :: ::opt namespace-name :: decltype-specifier :: nested-name-specifier identifier :: nested-name-specifier templateopt simple-template-id ::
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A nested-name-specifier that denotes a class, optionally followed by the keyword template (14.2), and then followed by the name of a member of either that class (9.2) or one of its base classes (Clause 10), is a qualified-id; 3.4.3.1 describes name lookup for class members that appear in qualified-ids. The result is the member. The type of the result is the type of the member. The result is an lvalue if the member is a static member function or a data member and a prvalue otherwise. [ Note: a class member can be referred to using a qualified-id at any point in its potential scope (3.3.7). — end note ] Where class-name :: class-name is used, and the two class-names refer to the same class, this notation names the constructor (12.1). Where class-name ::~ class-name is used, the two class-names shall refer to the same class; this notation names the destructor (12.4). The form ~ decltype-specifier also denotes the destructor, but it shall not be used as the unqualified-id in a qualified-id. [ Note: a typedef-name that names a class is a class-name (9.1). — end note ] A ::, or a nested-name-specifier that names a namespace (7.3), in either case followed by the name of a member of that namespace (or the name of a member of a namespace made visible by a using-directive) is a qualified-id; 3.4.3.2 describes name lookup for namespace members that appear in qualified-ids. The result is the member. The type of the result is the type of the member. The result is an lvalue if the member is a function or a variable and a prvalue otherwise. A nested-name-specifier that denotes an enumeration (7.2), followed by the name of an enumerator of that enumeration, is a qualified-id that refers to the enumerator. The result is the enumerator. The type of the result is the type of the enumeration. The result is a prvalue. In a qualified-id, if the unqualified-id is a conversion-function-id, its conversion-type-id shall denote the same type in both the context in which the entire qualified-id occurs and in the context of the class denoted by the nested-name-specifier. An id-expression that denotes a non-static data member or non-static member function of a class can only be used: — as part of a class member access (5.2.5) in which the object expression refers to the member’s class61 or a class derived from that class, or — to form a pointer to member (5.3.1), or — in a mem-initializer for a constructor for that class or for a class derived from that class (12.6.2), or — in a brace-or-equal-initializer for a non-static data member of that class or of a class derived from that class (12.6.2), or — if that id-expression denotes a non-static data member and it appears in an unevaluated operand. [ Example: struct S { int m; 61) This also applies when the object expression is an implicit (*this) (9.3.1).
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Lambda expressions provide a concise way to create simple function objects. [ Example: #include #include void abssort(float *x, unsigned N) { std::sort(x, x + N, [](float a, float b) { return std::abs(a) < std::abs(b); }); }
— end example ] lambda-expression: lambda-introducer lambda-declaratoropt compound-statement lambda-introducer: [ lambda-captureopt ] lambda-capture: capture-default capture-list capture-default , capture-list capture-default: & = capture-list: capture ...opt capture-list , capture ...opt capture: identifier & identifier this lambda-declarator: ( parameter-declaration-clause ) mutableopt exception-specificationopt attribute-specifier-seqopt trailing-return-typeopt 2
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An implementation shall not add members of rvalue reference type to the closure type. If a lambda-expression does not include a lambda-declarator, it is as if the lambda-declarator were (). If a lambda-expression does not include a trailing-return-type, it is as if the trailing-return-type denotes the following type: — if the compound-statement is of the form { attribute-specifier-seqopt return expression ; }
the type of the returned expression after lvalue-to-rvalue conversion (4.1), array-to-pointer conversion (4.2), and function-to-pointer conversion (4.3); — otherwise, void. [ Example: auto x1 = [](int i){ return i; }; // OK: return type is int auto x2 = []{ return { 1, 2 }; }; // error: the return type is void (a // braced-init-list is not an expression) 5
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— end example ] The closure type for a lambda-expression has a public inline function call operator (13.5.4) whose parameters and return type are described by the lambda-expression’s parameter-declaration-clause and trailingreturn-type respectively. This function call operator is declared const (9.3.1) if and only if the lambdaexpression’s parameter-declaration-clause is not followed by mutable. It is neither virtual nor declared volatile. Default arguments (8.3.6) shall not be specified in the parameter-declaration-clause of a lambdadeclarator. Any exception-specification specified on a lambda-expression applies to the corresponding function call operator. An attribute-specifier-seq in a lambda-declarator appertains to the type of the corresponding function call operator. [ Note: Names referenced in the lambda-declarator are looked up in the context in which the lambda-expression appears. — end note ] The closure type for a lambda-expression with no lambda-capture has a public non-virtual non-explicit const conversion function to pointer to function having the same parameter and return types as the closure type’s function call operator. The value returned by this conversion function shall be the address of a function that, when invoked, has the same effect as invoking the closure type’s function call operator. The lambda-expression’s compound-statement yields the function-body (8.4) of the function call operator, but for purposes of name lookup (3.4), determining the type and value of this (9.3.2) and transforming idexpressions referring to non-static class members into class member access expressions using (*this) (9.3.1), the compound-statement is considered in the context of the lambda-expression. [ Example: struct S1 { int x, y; int operator()(int); void f() { [=]()->int { return operator()(this->x + y); // equivalent to S1::operator()(this->x + (*this).y) // this has type S1* }; } };
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this and each identifier it contains shall be preceded by &. An identifier or this shall not appear more than once in a lambda-capture. [ Example: struct S2 { void f(int i); }; void S2::f(int i) { [&, i]{ }; // OK [&, &i]{ }; // error: i preceded by & when & is the default [=, this]{ }; // error: this when = is the default [i, i]{ }; // error: i repeated } 9
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— end example ] A lambda-expression whose smallest enclosing scope is a block scope (3.3.3) is a local lambda expression; any other lambda-expression shall not have a capture-list in its lambda-introducer. The reaching scope of a local lambda expression is the set of enclosing scopes up to and including the innermost enclosing function and its parameters. [ Note: This reaching scope includes any intervening lambda-expressions. — end note ] The identifiers in a capture-list are looked up using the usual rules for unqualified name lookup (3.4.1); each such lookup shall find a variable with automatic storage duration declared in the reaching scope of the local lambda expression. An entity (i.e. a variable or this) is said to be explicitly captured if it appears in the lambda-expression’s capture-list. If a lambda-expression has an associated capture-default and its compound-statement odr-uses (3.2) this or a variable with automatic storage duration and the odr-used entity is not explicitly captured, then the odr-used entity is said to be implicitly captured; such entities shall be declared within the reaching scope of the lambda expression. [ Note: The implicit capture of an entity by a nested lambda-expression can cause its implicit capture by the containing lambda-expression (see below). Implicit odr-uses of this can result in implicit capture. — end note ] An entity is captured if it is captured explicitly or implicitly. An entity captured by a lambda-expression is odr-used (3.2) in the scope containing the lambda-expression. If this is captured by a local lambda expression, its nearest enclosing function shall be a non-static member function. If a lambda-expression odr-uses (3.2) this or a variable with automatic storage duration from its reaching scope, that entity shall be captured by the lambda-expression. If a lambda-expression captures an entity and that entity is not defined or captured in the immediately enclosing lambda expression or function, the program is ill-formed. [ Example: void f1(int i) { int const N = 20; auto m1 = [=]{ int const M = 30; auto m2 = [i]{ int x[N][M]; x[0][0] = i; }; }; struct s1 { int f; void work(int n) { int m = n*n; int j = 40; auto m3 = [this,m] { auto m4 = [&,j] { int x = n; x += m;
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// OK: N and M are not odr-used // OK: i is explicitly captured by m2 // and implicitly captured by m1
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— end example ] A lambda-expression appearing in a default argument shall not implicitly or explicitly capture any entity. [ Example: void f2() { int i = 1; void g1(int void g2(int void g3(int void g4(int void g5(int }
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— end example ] An entity is captured by copy if it is implicitly captured and the capture-default is = or if it is explicitly captured with a capture that does not include an &. For each entity captured by copy, an unnamed nonstatic data member is declared in the closure type. The declaration order of these members is unspecified. The type of such a data member is the type of the corresponding captured entity if the entity is not a reference to an object, or the referenced type otherwise. [ Note: If the captured entity is a reference to a function, the corresponding data member is also a reference to a function. — end note ] An entity is captured by reference if it is implicitly or explicitly captured but not captured by copy. It is unspecified whether additional unnamed non-static data members are declared in the closure type for entities captured by reference. If a lambda-expression m2 captures an entity and that entity is captured by an immediately enclosing lambdaexpression m1, then m2’s capture is transformed as follows: — if m1 captures the entity by copy, m2 captures the corresponding non-static data member of m1’s closure type; — if m1 captures the entity by reference, m2 captures the same entity captured by m1. [ Example: the nested lambda expressions and invocations below will output 123234. int a = 1, b = 1, c = 1; auto m1 = [a, &b, &c]() mutable { auto m2 = [a, b, &c]() mutable { std::cout ( expression ) typeid ( expression ) typeid ( type-id ) expression-list: initializer-list pseudo-destructor-name: nested-name-specifieropt type-name :: ~ type-name nested-name-specifier template simple-template-id :: ~ type-name nested-name-specifieropt ~ type-name ~ decltype-specifier [ Note: The > token following the type-id in a dynamic_cast, static_cast, reinterpret_cast, or const_-
cast may be the product of replacing a >> token by two consecutive > tokens (14.2). — end note ]
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A postfix expression followed by an expression in square brackets is a postfix expression. One of the expressions shall have the type “pointer to T” and the other shall have unscoped enumeration or integral type. The result is an lvalue of type “T.” The type “T” shall be a completely-defined object type.62 The expression E1[E2] is identical (by definition) to *((E1)+(E2)) [ Note: see 5.3 and 5.7 for details of * and + and 8.3.4 for details of arrays. — end note ] A braced-init-list shall not be used with the built-in subscript operator.
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Function call
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There are two kinds of function call: ordinary function call and member function (9.3) call. A function call is a postfix expression followed by parentheses containing a possibly empty, comma-separated list of expressions which constitute the arguments to the function. For an ordinary function call, the postfix expression shall be either an lvalue that refers to a function (in which case the function-to-pointer standard conversion (4.3) is suppressed on the postfix expression), or it shall have pointer to function type. Calling a 62) This is true even if the subscript operator is used in the following common idiom: &x[0]. 63) A static member function (9.4) is an ordinary function.
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function through an expression whose function type has a language linkage that is different from the language linkage of the function type of the called function’s definition is undefined (7.5). For a member function call, the postfix expression shall be an implicit (9.3.1, 9.4) or explicit class member access (5.2.5) whose idexpression is a function member name, or a pointer-to-member expression (5.5) selecting a function member; the call is as a member of the class object referred to by the object expression. In the case of an implicit class member access, the implied object is the one pointed to by this. [ Note: a member function call of the form f() is interpreted as (*this).f() (see 9.3.1). — end note ] If a function or member function name is used, the name can be overloaded (Clause 13), in which case the appropriate function shall be selected according to the rules in 13.3. If the selected function is non-virtual, or if the id-expression in the class member access expression is a qualified-id, that function is called. Otherwise, its final overrider (10.3) in the dynamic type of the object expression is called. [ Note: the dynamic type is the type of the object referred to by the current value of the object expression. 12.7 describes the behavior of virtual function calls when the object expression refers to an object under construction or destruction. — end note ] [ Note: If a function or member function name is used, and name lookup (3.4) does not find a declaration of that name, the program is ill-formed. No function is implicitly declared by such a call. — end note ] If the postfix-expression designates a destructor (12.4), the type of the function call expression is void; otherwise, the type of the function call expression is the return type of the statically chosen function (i.e., ignoring the virtual keyword), even if the type of the function actually called is different. This type shall be an object type, a reference type or the type void. When a function is called, each parameter (8.3.5) shall be initialized (8.5, 12.8, 12.1) with its corresponding argument. [ Note: Such initializations are indeterminately sequenced with respect to each other (1.9) — end note ] If the function is a non-static member function, the this parameter of the function (9.3.2) shall be initialized with a pointer to the object of the call, converted as if by an explicit type conversion (5.4). [ Note: There is no access or ambiguity checking on this conversion; the access checking and disambiguation are done as part of the (possibly implicit) class member access operator. See 10.2, 11.2, and 5.2.5. — end note ] When a function is called, the parameters that have object type shall have completely-defined object type. [ Note: this still allows a parameter to be a pointer or reference to an incomplete class type. However, it prevents a passed-by-value parameter to have an incomplete class type. — end note ] During the initialization of a parameter, an implementation may avoid the construction of extra temporaries by combining the conversions on the associated argument and/or the construction of temporaries with the initialization of the parameter (see 12.2). The lifetime of a parameter ends when the function in which it is defined returns. The initialization and destruction of each parameter occurs within the context of the calling function. [ Example: the access of the constructor, conversion functions or destructor is checked at the point of call in the calling function. If a constructor or destructor for a function parameter throws an exception, the search for a handler starts in the scope of the calling function; in particular, if the function called has a function-try-block (Clause 15) with a handler that could handle the exception, this handler is not considered. — end example ] The value of a function call is the value returned by the called function except in a virtual function call if the return type of the final overrider is different from the return type of the statically chosen function, the value returned from the final overrider is converted to the return type of the statically chosen function. [ Note: a function can change the values of its non-const parameters, but these changes cannot affect the values of the arguments except where a parameter is of a reference type (8.3.2); if the reference is to a const-qualified type, const_cast is required to be used to cast away the constness in order to modify the argument’s value. Where a parameter is of const reference type a temporary object is introduced if needed (7.1.6, 2.14, 2.14.5, 8.3.4, 12.2). In addition, it is possible to modify the values of nonconstant objects through pointer parameters. — end note ] A function can be declared to accept fewer arguments (by declaring default arguments (8.3.6)) or more arguments (by using the ellipsis, ..., or a function parameter pack (8.3.5)) than the number of parameters in the function definition (8.4). [ Note: this implies that, except where the ellipsis (...) or a function parameter pack is used, a parameter is available for each argument. — end note ] When there is no parameter for a given argument, the argument is passed in such a way that the receiving § 5.2.2
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function can obtain the value of the argument by invoking va_arg (18.10). [ Note: This paragraph does not apply to arguments passed to a function parameter pack. Function parameter packs are expanded during template instantiation (14.5.3), thus each such argument has a corresponding parameter when a function template specialization is actually called. — end note ] The lvalue-to-rvalue (4.1), array-to-pointer (4.2), and function-to-pointer (4.3) standard conversions are performed on the argument expression. An argument that has (possibly cv-qualified) type std::nullptr_t is converted to type void* (4.10). After these conversions, if the argument does not have arithmetic, enumeration, pointer, pointer to member, or class type, the program is ill-formed. Passing a potentially-evaluated argument of class type (Clause 9) having a nontrivial copy constructor, a non-trivial move constructor, or a non-trivial destructor, with no corresponding parameter, is conditionally-supported with implementation-defined semantics. If the argument has integral or enumeration type that is subject to the integral promotions (4.5), or a floating point type that is subject to the floating point promotion (4.6), the value of the argument is converted to the promoted type before the call. These promotions are referred to as the default argument promotions. [ Note: The evaluations of the postfix expression and of the argument expressions are all unsequenced relative to one another. All side effects of argument expression evaluations are sequenced before the function is entered (see 1.9). — end note ] Recursive calls are permitted, except to the function named main (3.6.1). A function call is an lvalue if the result type is an lvalue reference type or an rvalue reference to function type, an xvalue if the result type is an rvalue reference to object type, and a prvalue otherwise. If a function call is a prvalue of object type: — if the function call is either — the operand of a decltype-specifier or — the right operand of a comma operator that is the operand of a decltype-specifier, a temporary object is not introduced for the prvalue. The type of the prvalue may be incomplete. [ Note: as a result, storage is not allocated for the prvalue and it is not destroyed; thus, a class type is not instantiated as a result of being the type of a function call in this context. This is true regardless of whether the expression uses function call notation or operator notation (13.3.1.2). — end note ] [ Note: unlike the rule for a decltype-specifier that considers whether an id-expression is parenthesized (7.1.6.2), parentheses have no special meaning in this context. — end note ] — otherwise, the type of the prvalue shall be complete.
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A simple-type-specifier (7.1.6.2) or typename-specifier (14.6) followed by a parenthesized expression-list constructs a value of the specified type given the expression list. If the expression list is a single expression, the type conversion expression is equivalent (in definedness, and if defined in meaning) to the corresponding cast expression (5.4). If the type specified is a class type, the class type shall be complete. If the expression list specifies more than a single value, the type shall be a class with a suitably declared constructor (8.5, 12.1), and the expression T(x1, x2, ...) is equivalent in effect to the declaration T t(x1, x2, ...); for some invented temporary variable t, with the result being the value of t as a prvalue. The expression T(), where T is a simple-type-specifier or typename-specifier for a non-array complete object type or the (possibly cv-qualified) void type, creates a prvalue of the specified type, whose value is that produced by value-initializing (8.5) an object of type T; no initialization is done for the void() case. [ Note: if T is a non-class type that is cv-qualified, the cv-qualifiers are ignored when determining the type of the resulting prvalue (3.10). — end note ]
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The use of a pseudo-destructor-name after a dot . or arrow -> operator represents the destructor for the non-class type denoted by type-name or decltype-specifier. The result shall only be used as the operand for the function call operator (), and the result of such a call has type void. The only effect is the evaluation of the postfix-expression before the dot or arrow. The left-hand side of the dot operator shall be of scalar type. The left-hand side of the arrow operator shall be of pointer to scalar type. This scalar type is the object type. The cv-unqualified versions of the object type and of the type designated by the pseudo-destructor-name shall be the same type. Furthermore, the two type-names in a pseudo-destructor-name of the form nested-name-specifieropt type-name :: ~ type-name
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A postfix expression followed by a dot . or an arrow ->, optionally followed by the keyword template (14.2), and then followed by an id-expression, is a postfix expression. The postfix expression before the dot or arrow is evaluated;64 the result of that evaluation, together with the id-expression, determines the result of the entire postfix expression. For the first option (dot) the first expression shall have complete class type. For the second option (arrow) the first expression shall have pointer to complete class type. The expression E1->E2 is converted to the equivalent form (*(E1)).E2; the remainder of 5.2.5 will address only the first option (dot).65 In either case, the id-expression shall name a member of the class or of one of its base classes. [ Note: because the name of a class is inserted in its class scope (Clause 9), the name of a class is also considered a nested member of that class. — end note ] [ Note: 3.4.5 describes how names are looked up after the . and -> operators. — end note ] Abbreviating postfix-expression.id-expression as E1.E2, E1 is called the object expression. The type and value category of E1.E2 are determined as follows. In the remainder of 5.2.5, cq represents either const or the absence of const and vq represents either volatile or the absence of volatile. cv represents an arbitrary set of cv-qualifiers, as defined in 3.9.3. If E2 is declared to have type “reference to T,” then E1.E2 is an lvalue; the type of E1.E2 is T. Otherwise, one of the following rules applies. — If E2 is a static data member and the type of E2 is T, then E1.E2 is an lvalue; the expression designates the named member of the class. The type of E1.E2 is T. — If E2 is a non-static data member and the type of E1 is “cq1 vq1 X”, and the type of E2 is “cq2 vq2 T”, the expression designates the named member of the object designated by the first expression. If E1 is an lvalue, then E1.E2 is an lvalue; if E1 is an xvalue, then E1.E2 is an xvalue; otherwise, it is a prvalue. Let the notation vq12 stand for the “union” of vq1 and vq2 ; that is, if vq1 or vq2 is volatile, then vq12 is volatile. Similarly, let the notation cq12 stand for the “union” of cq1 and cq2 ; that is, if cq1 or cq2 is const, then cq12 is const. If E2 is declared to be a mutable member, then the type of E1.E2 is “vq12 T”. If E2 is not declared to be a mutable member, then the type of E1.E2 is “cq12 vq12 T”. — If E2 is a (possibly overloaded) member function, function overload resolution (13.3) is used to determine whether E1.E2 refers to a static or a non-static member function. — If it refers to a static member function and the type of E2 is “function of parameter-type-list returning T”, then E1.E2 is an lvalue; the expression designates the static member function. The 64) If the class member access expression is evaluated, the subexpression evaluation happens even if the result is unnecessary to determine the value of the entire postfix expression, for example if the id-expression denotes a static member. 65) Note that (*(E1)) is an lvalue.
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type of E1.E2 is the same type as that of E2, namely “function of parameter-type-list returning T”. — Otherwise, if E1.E2 refers to a non-static member function and the type of E2 is “function of parameter-type-list cv ref-qualifieropt returning T”, then E1.E2 is a prvalue. The expression designates a non-static member function. The expression can be used only as the left-hand operand of a member function call (9.3). [ Note: Any redundant set of parentheses surrounding the expression is ignored (5.1). — end note ] The type of E1.E2 is “function of parameter-type-list cv returning T”. — If E2 is a nested type, the expression E1.E2 is ill-formed. — If E2 is a member enumerator and the type of E2 is T, the expression E1.E2 is a prvalue. The type of E1.E2 is T. 5
If E2 is a non-static data member or a non-static member function, the program is ill-formed if the class of which E2 is directly a member is an ambiguous base (10.2) of the naming class (11.2) of E2. [ Note: The program is also ill-formed if the naming class is an ambiguous base of the class type of the object expression; see 11.2. — end note ]
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The value of a postfix ++ expression is the value of its operand. [ Note: the value obtained is a copy of the original value — end note ] The operand shall be a modifiable lvalue. The type of the operand shall be an arithmetic type or a pointer to a complete object type. The value of the operand object is modified by adding 1 to it, unless the object is of type bool, in which case it is set to true. [ Note: this use is deprecated, see Annex D. — end note ] The value computation of the ++ expression is sequenced before the modification of the operand object. With respect to an indeterminately-sequenced function call, the operation of postfix ++ is a single evaluation. [ Note: Therefore, a function call shall not intervene between the lvalue-to-rvalue conversion and the side effect associated with any single postfix ++ operator. — end note ] The result is a prvalue. The type of the result is the cv-unqualified version of the type of the operand. See also 5.7 and 5.17. The operand of postfix -- is decremented analogously to the postfix ++ operator, except that the operand shall not be of type bool. [ Note: For prefix increment and decrement, see 5.3.2. — end note ]
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Dynamic cast
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The result of the expression dynamic_cast(v) is the result of converting the expression v to type T. T shall be a pointer or reference to a complete class type, or “pointer to cv void.” The dynamic_cast operator shall not cast away constness (5.2.11). If T is a pointer type, v shall be a prvalue of a pointer to complete class type, and the result is a prvalue of type T. If T is an lvalue reference type, v shall be an lvalue of a complete class type, and the result is an lvalue of the type referred to by T. If T is an rvalue reference type, v shall be an expression having a complete class type, and the result is an xvalue of the type referred to by T. If the type of v is the same as T, or it is the same as T except that the class object type in T is more cv-qualified than the class object type in v, the result is v (converted if necessary). If the value of v is a null pointer value in the pointer case, the result is the null pointer value of type T. If T is “pointer to cv1 B” and v has type “pointer to cv2 D” such that B is a base class of D, the result is a pointer to the unique B subobject of the D object pointed to by v. Similarly, if T is “reference to cv1 B” and v has type cv2 D such that B is a base class of D, the result is the unique B subobject of the D object referred to by v. 66 The result is an lvalue if T is an lvalue reference, or an xvalue if T is an rvalue reference. In both the pointer and reference cases, the program is ill-formed if cv2 has greater cv-qualification than cv1 or if B is an inaccessible or ambiguous base class of D. [ Example: 66) The most derived object (1.8) pointed or referred to by v can contain other B objects as base classes, but these are ignored.
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— end example ] Otherwise, v shall be a pointer to or an lvalue of a polymorphic type (10.3). If T is “pointer to cv void,” then the result is a pointer to the most derived object pointed to by v. Otherwise, a run-time check is applied to see if the object pointed or referred to by v can be converted to the type pointed or referred to by T. If C is the class type to which T points or refers, the run-time check logically executes as follows: — If, in the most derived object pointed (referred) to by v, v points (refers) to a public base class subobject of a C object, and if only one object of type C is derived from the subobject pointed (referred) to by v the result points (refers) to that C object. — Otherwise, if v points (refers) to a public base class subobject of the most derived object, and the type of the most derived object has a base class, of type C, that is unambiguous and public, the result points (refers) to the C subobject of the most derived object. — Otherwise, the run-time check fails.
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The value of a failed cast to pointer type is the null pointer value of the required result type. A failed cast to reference type throws std::bad_cast (18.7.2). [ Example: class A { virtual void f(); }; class B { virtual void g(); }; class D : public virtual A, private void g() { D d; B* bp = (B*)&d; A* ap = &d; D& dr = dynamic_cast(*bp); ap = dynamic_cast(bp); bp = dynamic_cast(ap); ap = dynamic_cast(&d); bp = dynamic_cast(&d); } class E : public D, public B { }; class F : public E, public D { }; void h() { F f; A* ap = &f; D* dp = dynamic_cast(ap); E* E*
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— end example ] [ Note: 12.7 describes the behavior of a dynamic_cast applied to an object under construction or destruction. — end note ]
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Type identification
The result of a typeid expression is an lvalue of static type const std::type_info (18.7.1) and dynamic type const std::type_info or const name where name is an implementation-defined class publicly derived from std :: type_info which preserves the behavior described in 18.7.1.67 The lifetime of the object referred to by the lvalue extends to the end of the program. Whether or not the destructor is called for the std::type_info object at the end of the program is unspecified. When typeid is applied to a glvalue expression whose type is a polymorphic class type (10.3), the result refers to a std::type_info object representing the type of the most derived object (1.8) (that is, the dynamic type) to which the glvalue refers. If the glvalue expression is obtained by applying the unary * operator to a pointer68 and the pointer is a null pointer value (4.10), the typeid expression throws the std::bad_typeid exception (18.7.3). When typeid is applied to an expression other than a glvalue of a polymorphic class type, the result refers to a std::type_info object representing the static type of the expression. Lvalue-to-rvalue (4.1), array-topointer (4.2), and function-to-pointer (4.3) conversions are not applied to the expression. If the type of the expression is a class type, the class shall be completely-defined. The expression is an unevaluated operand (Clause 5). When typeid is applied to a type-id, the result refers to a std::type_info object representing the type of the type-id. If the type of the type-id is a reference to a possibly cv-qualified type, the result of the typeid expression refers to a std::type_info object representing the cv-unqualified referenced type. If the type of the type-id is a class type or a reference to a class type, the class shall be completely-defined. The top-level cv-qualifiers of the glvalue expression or the type-id that is the operand of typeid are always ignored. [ Example: class D { /* ... D d1; const D d2; typeid(d1) typeid(D) typeid(D) typeid(D)
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typeid(d2); typeid(const D); typeid(d2); typeid(const D&);
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Static cast
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The result of the expression static_cast(v) is the result of converting the expression v to type T. If T is an lvalue reference type or an rvalue reference to function type, the result is an lvalue; if T is an rvalue reference to object type, the result is an xvalue; otherwise, the result is a prvalue. The static_cast operator shall not cast away constness (5.2.11). An lvalue of type “cv1 B,” where B is a class type, can be cast to type “reference to cv2 D,” where D is a class derived (Clause 10) from B, if a valid standard conversion from “pointer to D” to “pointer to B” exists (4.10), cv2 is the same cv-qualification as, or greater cv-qualification than, cv1, and B is neither a virtual base class of D nor a base class of a virtual base class of D. The result has type “cv2 D.” An xvalue of type “cv1 B” may be cast to type “rvalue reference to cv2 D” with the same constraints as for an lvalue of type “cv1 B.” If the object of type “cv1 B” is actually a subobject of an object of type D, the result refers to the enclosing object of type D. Otherwise, the result of the cast is undefined. [ Example: struct B { }; 67) The recommended name for such a class is extended_type_info. 68) If p is an expression of pointer type, then *p, (*p), *(p), ((*p)), *((p)), and so on all meet this requirement.
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— end example ] A glvalue of type “cv1 T1” can be cast to type “rvalue reference to cv2 T2” if “cv2 T2” is reference-compatible with “cv1 T1” (8.5.3). The result refers to the object or the specified base class subobject thereof. If T2 is an inaccessible (Clause 11) or ambiguous (10.2) base class of T1, a program that necessitates such a cast is ill-formed. Otherwise, an expression e can be explicitly converted to a type T using a static_cast of the form static_cast(e) if the declaration T t(e); is well-formed, for some invented temporary variable t (8.5). The effect of such an explicit conversion is the same as performing the declaration and initialization and then using the temporary variable as the result of the conversion. The expression e is used as a glvalue if and only if the initialization uses it as a glvalue. Otherwise, the static_cast shall perform one of the conversions listed below. No other conversion shall be performed explicitly using a static_cast. Any expression can be explicitly converted to type cv void, in which case it becomes a discarded-value expression (Clause 5). [ Note: however, if the value is in a temporary object (12.2), the destructor for that object is not executed until the usual time, and the value of the object is preserved for the purpose of executing the destructor. — end note ] The inverse of any standard conversion sequence (Clause 4) not containing an lvalue-to-rvalue (4.1), arrayto-pointer (4.2), function-to-pointer (4.3), null pointer (4.10), null member pointer (4.11), or boolean (4.12) conversion, can be performed explicitly using static_cast. A program is ill-formed if it uses static_cast to perform the inverse of an ill-formed standard conversion sequence. [ Example: struct B { }; struct D : private B { }; void f() { static_cast((B*)0); static_cast((int D::*)0); }
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— end example ] The lvalue-to-rvalue (4.1), array-to-pointer (4.2), and function-to-pointer (4.3) conversions are applied to the operand. Such a static_cast is subject to the restriction that the explicit conversion does not cast away constness (5.2.11), and the following additional rules for specific cases: A value of a scoped enumeration type (7.2) can be explicitly converted to an integral type. The value is unchanged if the original value can be represented by the specified type. Otherwise, the resulting value is unspecified. A value of a scoped enumeration type can also be explicitly converted to a floating-point type; the result is the same as that of converting from the original value to the floating-point type. A value of integral or enumeration type can be explicitly converted to an enumeration type. The value is unchanged if the original value is within the range of the enumeration values (7.2). Otherwise, the resulting value is unspecified (and might not be in that range). A value of floating-point type can also be converted to an enumeration type. The resulting value is the same as converting the original value to the underlying type of the enumeration (4.9), and subsequently to the enumeration type. A prvalue of type “pointer to cv1 B,” where B is a class type, can be converted to a prvalue of type “pointer to cv2 D,” where D is a class derived (Clause 10) from B, if a valid standard conversion from “pointer to D” to “pointer to B” exists (4.10), cv2 is the same cv-qualification as, or greater cv-qualification than, cv1, and B is neither a virtual base class of D nor a base class of a virtual base class of D. The null pointer value (4.10) is converted to the null pointer value of the destination type. If the prvalue of type “pointer to cv1 B” points
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to a B that is actually a subobject of an object of type D, the resulting pointer points to the enclosing object of type D. Otherwise, the result of the cast is undefined. A prvalue of type “pointer to member of D of type cv1 T” can be converted to a prvalue of type “pointer to member of B” of type cv2 T, where B is a base class (Clause 10) of D, if a valid standard conversion from “pointer to member of B of type T” to “pointer to member of D of type T” exists (4.11), and cv2 is the same cv-qualification as, or greater cv-qualification than, cv1.69 The null member pointer value (4.11) is converted to the null member pointer value of the destination type. If class B contains the original member, or is a base or derived class of the class containing the original member, the resulting pointer to member points to the original member. Otherwise, the result of the cast is undefined. [ Note: although class B need not contain the original member, the dynamic type of the object on which the pointer to member is dereferenced must contain the original member; see 5.5. — end note ] A prvalue of type “pointer to cv1 void” can be converted to a prvalue of type “pointer to cv2 T,” where T is an object type and cv2 is the same cv-qualification as, or greater cv-qualification than, cv1. The null pointer value is converted to the null pointer value of the destination type. A value of type pointer to object converted to “pointer to cv void” and back, possibly with different cv-qualification, shall have its original value. [ Example: T* p1 = new T; const T* p2 = static_cast(static_cast(p1)); bool b = p1 == p2; // b will have the value true.
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The result of the expression reinterpret_cast(v) is the result of converting the expression v to type T. If T is an lvalue reference type or an rvalue reference to function type, the result is an lvalue; if T is an rvalue reference to object type, the result is an xvalue; otherwise, the result is a prvalue and the lvalue-torvalue (4.1), array-to-pointer (4.2), and function-to-pointer (4.3) standard conversions are performed on the expression v. Conversions that can be performed explicitly using reinterpret_cast are listed below. No other conversion can be performed explicitly using reinterpret_cast. The reinterpret_cast operator shall not cast away constness (5.2.11). An expression of integral, enumeration, pointer, or pointer-to-member type can be explicitly converted to its own type; such a cast yields the value of its operand. [ Note: The mapping performed by reinterpret_cast might, or might not, produce a representation different from the original value. — end note ] A pointer can be explicitly converted to any integral type large enough to hold it. The mapping function is implementation-defined. [ Note: It is intended to be unsurprising to those who know the addressing structure of the underlying machine. — end note ] A value of type std::nullptr_t can be converted to an integral type; the conversion has the same meaning and validity as a conversion of (void*)0 to the integral type. [ Note: A reinterpret_cast cannot be used to convert a value of any type to the type std::nullptr_t. — end note ] A value of integral type or enumeration type can be explicitly converted to a pointer. A pointer converted to an integer of sufficient size (if any such exists on the implementation) and back to the same pointer type will have its original value; mappings between pointers and integers are otherwise implementation-defined. [ Note: Except as described in 3.7.4.3, the result of such a conversion will not be a safely-derived pointer value. — end note ] A function pointer can be explicitly converted to a function pointer of a different type. The effect of calling a function through a pointer to a function type (8.3.5) that is not the same as the type used in the definition of the function is undefined. Except that converting a prvalue of type “pointer to T1” to the type “pointer to T2” (where T1 and T2 are function types) and back to its original type yields the original pointer value, the 69) Function types (including those used in pointer to member function types) are never cv-qualified; see 8.3.5.
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result of such a pointer conversion is unspecified. [ Note: see also 4.10 for more details of pointer conversions. — end note ] An object pointer can be explicitly converted to an object pointer of a different type.70 When a prvalue v of type “pointer to T1” is converted to the type “pointer to cv T2”, the result is static_cast(static_cast(v)) if both T1 and T2 are standard-layout types (3.9) and the alignment requirements of T2 are no stricter than those of T1, or if either type is void. Converting a prvalue of type “pointer to T1” to the type “pointer to T2” (where T1 and T2 are object types and where the alignment requirements of T2 are no stricter than those of T1) and back to its original type yields the original pointer value. The result of any other such pointer conversion is unspecified. Converting a function pointer to an object pointer type or vice versa is conditionally-supported. The meaning of such a conversion is implementation-defined, except that if an implementation supports conversions in both directions, converting a prvalue of one type to the other type and back, possibly with different cvqualification, shall yield the original pointer value. The null pointer value (4.10) is converted to the null pointer value of the destination type. [ Note: A null pointer constant of type std::nullptr_t cannot be converted to a pointer type, and a null pointer constant of integral type is not necessarily converted to a null pointer value. — end note ] A prvalue of type “pointer to member of X of type T1” can be explicitly converted to a prvalue of a different type “pointer to member of Y of type T2” if T1 and T2 are both function types or both object types.71 The null member pointer value (4.11) is converted to the null member pointer value of the destination type. The result of this conversion is unspecified, except in the following cases: — converting a prvalue of type “pointer to member function” to a different pointer to member function type and back to its original type yields the original pointer to member value. — converting a prvalue of type “pointer to data member of X of type T1” to the type “pointer to data member of Y of type T2” (where the alignment requirements of T2 are no stricter than those of T1) and back to its original type yields the original pointer to member value.
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The result of the expression const_cast(v) is of type T. If T is an lvalue reference to object type, the result is an lvalue; if T is an rvalue reference to object type, the result is an xvalue; otherwise, the result is a prvalue and the lvalue-to-rvalue (4.1), array-to-pointer (4.2), and function-to-pointer (4.3) standard conversions are performed on the expression v. Conversions that can be performed explicitly using const_cast are listed below. No other conversion shall be performed explicitly using const_cast. [ Note: Subject to the restrictions in this section, an expression may be cast to its own type using a const_cast operator. — end note ] For two pointer types T1 and T2 where T1 is cv 1,0 pointer to cv 1,1 pointer to · · · cv 1,n−1 pointer to cv 1,n T and 70) The types may have different cv-qualifiers, subject to the overall restriction that a reinterpret_cast cannot cast away constness. 71) T1 and T2 may have different cv-qualifiers, subject to the overall restriction that a reinterpret_cast cannot cast away constness. 72) This is sometimes referred to as a type pun.
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Expressions with unary operators group right-to-left. unary-expression: postfix-expression ++ cast-expression -- cast-expression unary-operator cast-expression sizeof unary-expression sizeof ( type-id ) sizeof ... ( identifier ) alignof ( type-id ) noexcept-expression new-expression delete-expression
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Unary operators
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The unary * operator performs indirection: the expression to which it is applied shall be a pointer to an object type, or a pointer to a function type and the result is an lvalue referring to the object or function to which the expression points. If the type of the expression is “pointer to T,” the type of the result is “T.” [ Note: a pointer to an incomplete type (other than cv void) can be dereferenced. The lvalue thus obtained can be used in limited ways (to initialize a reference, for example); this lvalue must not be converted to a prvalue, see 4.1. — end note ] The result of each of the following unary operators is a prvalue. The result of the unary & operator is a pointer to its operand. The operand shall be an lvalue or a qualifiedid. If the operand is a qualified-id naming a non-static member m of some class C with type T, the result has type “pointer to member of class C of type T” and is a prvalue designating C::m. Otherwise, if the type of the expression is T, the result has type “pointer to T” and is a prvalue that is the address of the designated object (1.7) or a pointer to the designated function. [ Note: In particular, the address of an object of type “cv T” is “pointer to cv T”, with the same cv-qualification. — end note ] [ Example: struct A { int i; }; struct B : A { }; ... &B::i ... // has type int A::*
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The address of an object of incomplete type can be taken, but if the complete type of that object is a class type that declares operator&() as a member function, then the behavior is undefined (and no diagnostic is required). The operand of & shall not be a bit-field. The address of an overloaded function (Clause 13) can be taken only in a context that uniquely determines which version of the overloaded function is referred to (see 13.4). [ Note: since the context might determine whether the operand is a static or non-static member function, the context can also affect whether the expression has type “pointer to function” or “pointer to member function.” — end note ] The operand of the unary + operator shall have arithmetic, unscoped enumeration, or pointer type and the result is the value of the argument. Integral promotion is performed on integral or enumeration operands. The type of the result is the type of the promoted operand. The operand of the unary - operator shall have arithmetic or unscoped enumeration type and the result is the negation of its operand. Integral promotion is performed on integral or enumeration operands. The negative of an unsigned quantity is computed by subtracting its value from 2n , where n is the number of bits in the promoted operand. The type of the result is the type of the promoted operand. The operand of the logical negation operator ! is contextually converted to bool (Clause 4); its value is true if the converted operand is false and false otherwise. The type of the result is bool. The operand of ˜ shall have integral or unscoped enumeration type; the result is the one’s complement of its operand. Integral promotions are performed. The type of the result is the type of the promoted operand. There is an ambiguity in the unary-expression ˜X(), where X is a class-name or decltype-specifier. The ambiguity is resolved in favor of treating ˜ as a unary complement rather than treating ˜X as referring to a destructor.
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Increment and decrement
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The operand of prefix ++ is modified by adding 1, or set to true if it is bool (this use is deprecated). The operand shall be a modifiable lvalue. The type of the operand shall be an arithmetic type or a pointer to a completely-defined object type. The result is the updated operand; it is an lvalue, and it is a bit-field if the operand is a bit-field. If x is not of type bool, the expression ++x is equivalent to x+=1 [ Note: See the discussions of addition (5.7) and assignment operators (5.17) for information on conversions. — end note ] The operand of prefix -- is modified by subtracting 1. The operand shall not be of type bool. The requirements on the operand of prefix -- and the properties of its result are otherwise the same as those of prefix ++. [ Note: For postfix increment and decrement, see 5.2.6. — end note ]
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Sizeof
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The sizeof operator yields the number of bytes in the object representation of its operand. The operand is either an expression, which is an unevaluated operand (Clause 5), or a parenthesized type-id. The sizeof operator shall not be applied to an expression that has function or incomplete type, to an enumeration type whose underlying type is not fixed before all its enumerators have been declared, to the parenthesized name of such types, or to an lvalue that designates a bit-field. sizeof(char), sizeof(signed char) and sizeof(unsigned char) are 1. The result of sizeof applied to any other fundamental type (3.9.1) is implementation-defined. [ Note: in particular, sizeof(bool), sizeof(char16_t), sizeof(char32_t), and sizeof(wchar_t) are implementation-defined.74 — end note ] [ Note: See 1.7 for the definition of byte and 3.9 for the definition of object representation. — end note ] When applied to a reference or a reference type, the result is the size of the referenced type. When applied to a class, the result is the number of bytes in an object of that class including any padding required for placing objects of that type in an array. The size of a most derived class shall be greater than zero (1.8). The result of applying sizeof to a base class subobject is the size of the base class type.75 When applied to an array, the result is the total number of bytes in the array. This implies that the size of an array of n elements is n times the size of an element. The sizeof operator can be applied to a pointer to a function, but shall not be applied directly to a function. 74) sizeof(bool) is not required to be 1. 75) The actual size of a base class subobject may be less than the result of applying sizeof to the subobject, due to virtual
base classes and less strict padding requirements on base class subobjects.
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The lvalue-to-rvalue (4.1), array-to-pointer (4.2), and function-to-pointer (4.3) standard conversions are not applied to the operand of sizeof. The identifier in a sizeof... expression shall name a parameter pack. The sizeof... operator yields the number of arguments provided for the parameter pack identifier. A sizeof... expression is a pack expansion (14.5.3). [ Example: template struct count { static const std::size_t value = sizeof...(Types); };
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New
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The new-expression attempts to create an object of the type-id (8.1) or new-type-id to which it is applied. The type of that object is the allocated type. This type shall be a complete object type, but not an abstract class type or array thereof (1.8, 3.9, 10.4). It is implementation-defined whether over-aligned types are supported (3.11). [ Note: because references are not objects, references cannot be created by newexpressions. — end note ] [ Note: the type-id may be a cv-qualified type, in which case the object created by the new-expression has a cv-qualified type. — end note ] new-expression: ::opt new new-placementopt new-type-id new-initializeropt ::opt new new-placementopt ( type-id ) new-initializeropt new-placement: ( expression-list ) new-type-id: type-specifier-seq new-declaratoropt new-declarator: ptr-operator new-declaratoropt noptr-new-declarator noptr-new-declarator: [ expression ] attribute-specifier-seqopt noptr-new-declarator [ constant-expression ] attribute-specifier-seqopt new-initializer: ( expression-listopt ) braced-init-list
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Entities created by a new-expression have dynamic storage duration (3.7.4). [ Note: the lifetime of such an entity is not necessarily restricted to the scope in which it is created. — end note ] If the entity is a nonarray object, the new-expression returns a pointer to the object created. If it is an array, the new-expression returns a pointer to the initial element of the array. If the auto type-specifier appears in the type-specifier-seq of a new-type-id or type-id of a new-expression, the new-expression shall contain a new-initializer of the form ( assignment-expression )
The allocated type is deduced from the new-initializer as follows: Let e be the assignment-expression in the new-initializer and T be the new-type-id or type-id of the new-expression, then the allocated type is the type deduced for the variable x in the invented declaration (7.1.6.4): T x(e);
[ Example: new auto(1); auto x = new auto(’a’);
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— end example ] The new-type-id in a new-expression is the longest possible sequence of new-declarators. [ Note: this prevents ambiguities between the declarator operators &, &&, *, and [] and their expression counterparts. — end note ] [ Example: new int * i;
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The * is the pointer declarator and not the multiplication operator. — end example ] [ Note: parentheses in a new-type-id of a new-expression can have surprising effects. [ Example: new int(*[10])();
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greater than the size of the object being created only if the object is an array. For arrays of char and unsigned char, the difference between the result of the new-expression and the address returned by the allocation function shall be an integral multiple of the strictest fundamental alignment requirement (3.11) of any object type whose size is no greater than the size of the array being created. [ Note: Because allocation functions are assumed to return pointers to storage that is appropriately aligned for objects of any type with fundamental alignment, this constraint on array allocation overhead permits the common idiom of allocating character arrays into which objects of other types will later be placed. — end note ] The new-placement syntax is used to supply additional arguments to an allocation function. If used, overload resolution is performed on a function call created by assembling an argument list consisting of the amount of space requested (the first argument) and the expressions in the new-placement part of the new-expression (the second and succeeding arguments). The first of these arguments has type std::size_t and the remaining arguments have the corresponding types of the expressions in the new-placement. [ Example: — new T results in a call of operator new(sizeof(T)), — new(2,f) T results in a call of operator new(sizeof(T),2,f), — new T[5] results in a call of operator new[](sizeof(T)*5+x), and — new(2,f) T[5] results in a call of operator new[](sizeof(T)*5+y,2,f).
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If any part of the object initialization described above76 terminates by throwing an exception, storage has been obtained for the object, and a suitable deallocation function can be found, the deallocation function is called to free the memory in which the object was being constructed, after which the exception continues to propagate in the context of the new-expression. If no unambiguous matching deallocation function can be found, propagating the exception does not cause the object’s memory to be freed. [ Note: This is appropriate when the called allocation function does not allocate memory; otherwise, it is likely to result in a memory leak. — end note ] If the new-expression begins with a unary :: operator, the deallocation function’s name is looked up in the global scope. Otherwise, if the allocated type is a class type T or an array thereof, the deallocation function’s name is looked up in the scope of T. If this lookup fails to find the name, or if the allocated type is not a class type or array thereof, the deallocation function’s name is looked up in the global scope. A declaration of a placement deallocation function matches the declaration of a placement allocation function if it has the same number of parameters and, after parameter transformations (8.3.5), all parameter types except the first are identical. Any non-placement deallocation function matches a non-placement allocation function. If the lookup finds a single matching deallocation function, that function will be called; otherwise, no deallocation function will be called. If the lookup finds the two-parameter form of a usual deallocation function (3.7.4.2) and that function, considered as a placement deallocation function, would have been selected as a match for the allocation function, the program is ill-formed. [ Example: struct S { // Placement allocation function: static void* operator new(std::size_t, std::size_t); // Usual (non-placement) deallocation function: static void operator delete(void*, std::size_t); }; S* p = new (0) S;
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Delete
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The delete-expression operator destroys a most derived object (1.8) or array created by a new-expression. delete-expression: ::opt delete cast-expression ::opt delete [ ] cast-expression
The first alternative is for non-array objects, and the second is for arrays. Whenever the delete keyword is immediately followed by empty square brackets, it shall be interpreted as the second alternative.77 The operand shall have a pointer to object type, or a class type having a single non-explicit conversion function (12.3.2) to a pointer to object type. The result has type void.78 76) This may include evaluating a new-initializer and/or calling a constructor. 77) A lambda expression with a lambda-introducer that consists of empty square brackets can follow the delete keyword if
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If the operand has a class type, the operand is converted to a pointer type by calling the above-mentioned conversion function, and the converted operand is used in place of the original operand for the remainder of this section. In the first alternative (delete object), the value of the operand of delete may be a null pointer value, a pointer to a non-array object created by a previous new-expression, or a pointer to a subobject (1.8) representing a base class of such an object (Clause 10). If not, the behavior is undefined. In the second alternative (delete array), the value of the operand of delete may be a null pointer value or a pointer value that resulted from a previous array new-expression.79 If not, the behavior is undefined. [ Note: this means that the syntax of the delete-expression must match the type of the object allocated by new, not the syntax of the new-expression. — end note ] [ Note: a pointer to a const type can be the operand of a delete-expression; it is not necessary to cast away the constness (5.2.11) of the pointer expression before it is used as the operand of the delete-expression. — end note ] In the first alternative (delete object), if the static type of the object to be deleted is different from its dynamic type, the static type shall be a base class of the dynamic type of the object to be deleted and the static type shall have a virtual destructor or the behavior is undefined. In the second alternative (delete array) if the dynamic type of the object to be deleted differs from its static type, the behavior is undefined. The cast-expression in a delete-expression shall be evaluated exactly once. If the object being deleted has incomplete class type at the point of deletion and the complete class has a non-trivial destructor or a deallocation function, the behavior is undefined. If the value of the operand of the delete-expression is not a null pointer value, the delete-expression will invoke the destructor (if any) for the object or the elements of the array being deleted. In the case of an array, the elements will be destroyed in order of decreasing address (that is, in reverse order of the completion of their constructor; see 12.6.2). If the value of the operand of the delete-expression is not a null pointer value, the delete-expression will call a deallocation function (3.7.4.2). Otherwise, it is unspecified whether the deallocation function will be called. [ Note: The deallocation function is called regardless of whether the destructor for the object or some element of the array throws an exception. — end note ] [ Note: An implementation provides default definitions of the global deallocation functions operator delete() for non-arrays (18.6.1.1) and operator delete[]() for arrays (18.6.1.2). A C++ program can provide alternative definitions of these functions (17.6.4.6), and/or class-specific versions (12.5). — end note ] When the keyword delete in a delete-expression is preceded by the unary :: operator, the global deallocation function is used to deallocate the storage. Access and ambiguity control are done for both the deallocation function and the destructor (12.4, 12.5).
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An alignof expression yields the alignment requirement of its operand type. The operand shall be a type-id representing a complete object type, or an array thereof, or a reference to one of those types. The result is an integral constant of type std::size_t. When alignof is applied to a reference type, the result shall be the alignment of the referenced type. When alignof is applied to an array type, the result shall be the alignment of the element type.
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The noexcept operator determines whether the evaluation of its operand, which is an unevaluated operand (Clause 5), can throw an exception (15.1). noexcept-expression: noexcept ( expression )
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The result of the expression (T) cast-expression is of type T. The result is an lvalue if T is an lvalue reference type or an rvalue reference to function type and an xvalue if T is an rvalue reference to object type; otherwise the result is a prvalue. [ Note: if T is a non-class type that is cv-qualified, the cv-qualifiers are ignored when determining the type of the resulting prvalue; see 3.10. — end note ] An explicit type conversion can be expressed using functional notation (5.2.3), a type conversion operator (dynamic_cast, static_cast, reinterpret_cast, const_cast), or the cast notation. cast-expression: unary-expression ( type-id ) cast-expression
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If a conversion can be interpreted in more than one of the ways listed above, the interpretation that appears first in the list is used, even if a cast resulting from that interpretation is ill-formed. If a conversion can be interpreted in more than one way as a static_cast followed by a const_cast, the conversion is ill-formed. [ Example: struct A { }; struct I1 : A { }; struct I2 : A { }; struct D : I1, I2 { }; A *foo( D *p ) { return (A*)( p ); // ill-formed static_cast interpretation } 5
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Pointer-to-member operators
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The pointer-to-member operators ->* and .* group left-to-right. pm-expression: cast-expression pm-expression .* cast-expression pm-expression ->* cast-expression
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The binary operator .* binds its second operand, which shall be of type “pointer to member of T” to its first operand, which shall be of class T or of a class of which T is an unambiguous and accessible base class. The result is an object or a function of the type specified by the second operand. The binary operator ->* binds its second operand, which shall be of type “pointer to member of T” to its first operand, which shall be of type “pointer to T” or “pointer to a class of which T is an unambiguous and accessible base class.” The expression E1->*E2 is converted into the equivalent form (*(E1)).*E2. Abbreviating pm-expression.*cast-expression as E1.*E2, E1 is called the object expression. If the dynamic type of E1 does not contain the member to which E2 refers, the behavior is undefined. The restrictions on cv-qualification, and the manner in which the cv-qualifiers of the operands are combined to produce the cv-qualifiers of the result, are the same as the rules for E1.E2 given in 5.2.5. [ Note: it is not possible to use a pointer to member that refers to a mutable member to modify a const class object. For example, struct S { S() : i(0) { } mutable int i; }; void f() { const S cs; int S::* pm = &S::i; cs.*pm = 88; }
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Multiplicative operators
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The multiplicative operators *, /, and % group left-to-right. multiplicative-expression: pm-expression multiplicative-expression * pm-expression multiplicative-expression / pm-expression multiplicative-expression % pm-expression
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The additive operators + and - group left-to-right. The usual arithmetic conversions are performed for operands of arithmetic or enumeration type. additive-expression: multiplicative-expression additive-expression + multiplicative-expression additive-expression - multiplicative-expression
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The relational operators group left-to-right. [ Example: a decltype(i(h())); // forces completion of A and implicitly uses // A::˜A() for the temporary introduced by the // use of h(). (A temporary is not introduced // as a result of the use of i().) template auto f(T) // #2 -> void; auto g() -> void { f(42); // OK: calls #2. (#1 is not a viable candidate: type // deduction fails (14.8.2) because A::~A() // is implicitly used in its decltype-specifier) } template auto q(T) -> decltype((h())); // does not force completion of A; A::˜A() is // not implicitly used within the context of this decltype-specifier void r() { q(42); // Error: deduction against q succeeds, so overload resolution // selects the specialization “q(T) -> decltype((h())) [with T=int]”. // The return type is A, so a temporary is introduced and its
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Elaborated type specifiers
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An attribute-specifier-seq shall not appear in an elaborated-type-specifier unless the latter is the sole constituent of a declaration. If an elaborated-type-specifier is the sole constituent of a declaration, the declaration is ill-formed unless it is an explicit specialization (14.7.3), an explicit instantiation (14.7.2) or it has one of the following forms: class-key attribute-specifier-seqopt identifier ; friend class-key ::opt identifier ; friend class-key ::opt simple-template-id ; friend class-key nested-name-specifier identifier ; friend class-key nested-name-specifier templateopt simple-template-id ;
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The auto type-specifier signifies that the type of a variable being declared shall be deduced from its initializer or that a function declarator shall include a trailing-return-type. The auto type-specifier may appear with a function declarator with a trailing-return-type (8.3.5) in any context where such a declarator is valid. Otherwise, the type of the variable is deduced from its initializer. The name of the variable being declared shall not appear in the initializer expression. This use of auto is allowed when declaring variables in a block (6.3), in namespace scope (3.3.6), and in a for-init-statement (6.5.3). auto shall appear as one of the decl-specifiers in the decl-specifier-seq and the decl-specifier-seq shall be followed by one or more initdeclarators, each of which shall have a non-empty initializer. In an initializer of the form ( expression-list )
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— end example ] The auto type-specifier can also be used in declaring a variable in the condition of a selection statement (6.4) or an iteration statement (6.5), in the type-specifier-seq in the new-type-id or type-id of a new-expression (5.3.4), in a for-range-declaration, and in declaring a static data member with a brace-or-equal-initializer that appears within the member-specification of a class definition (9.4.2). A program that uses auto in a context not explicitly allowed in this section is ill-formed. Once the type of a declarator-id has been determined according to 8.3, the type of the declared variable using the declarator-id is determined from the type of its initializer using the rules for template argument deduction. Let T be the type that has been determined for a variable identifier d. Obtain P from T by replacing the occurrences of auto with either a new invented type template parameter U or, if the initializer is a braced-init-list (8.5.4), with std::initializer_list. The type deduced for the variable d is then the deduced A determined using the rules of template argument deduction from a function call (14.8.2.1), where P is a function template parameter type and the initializer for d is the corresponding argument. If the deduction fails, the declaration is ill-formed. [ Example: auto x1 = { 1, 2 }; auto x2 = { 1, 2.0 };
// decltype(x1) is std::initializer_list // error: cannot deduce element type
— end example ] [ Example: const auto &i = expr;
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— end example ] If the init-declarator-list contains more than one init-declarator, they shall all form declarations of variables. The type of each declared variable is determined as described above, and if the type that replaces the occurrence of auto is not the same in each deduction, the program is ill-formed. [ Example: auto x = 5, *y = &x; auto a = 5, b = { 1, 2 };
// OK: auto is int // error: different types for auto
— end example ]
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An enumeration is a distinct type (3.9.2) with named constants. Its name becomes an enum-name, within its scope. enum-name: identifier enum-specifier: enum-head { enumerator-listopt } enum-head { enumerator-list , } enum-head: enum-key attribute-specifier-seqopt identifieropt enum-baseopt enum-key attribute-specifier-seqopt nested-name-specifier identifier enum-baseopt
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type, the program is ill-formed. If the underlying type is not fixed, the type of each enumerator is the type of its initializing value: — If an initializer is specified for an enumerator, the initializing value has the same type as the expression and the constant-expression shall be an integral constant expression (5.19). — If no initializer is specified for the first enumerator, the initializing value has an unspecified integral type. — Otherwise the type of the initializing value is the same as the type of the initializing value of the preceding enumerator unless the incremented value is not representable in that type, in which case the type is an unspecified integral type sufficient to contain the incremented value. If no such type exists, the program is ill-formed. 6
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makes color a type describing various colors, and then declares col as an object of that type, and cp as a pointer to an object of that type. The possible values of an object of type color are red, yellow, green, blue; these values can be converted to the integral values 0, 1, 20, and 21. Since enumerations are distinct types, objects of type color can be assigned only values of type color. color c = 1;
// error: type mismatch, // no conversion from int to color
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// OK: yellow converted to integral value 1 // integral promotion
Note that this implicit enum to int conversion is not provided for a scoped enumeration: 93) This set of values is used to define promotion and conversion semantics for the enumeration type. It does not preclude an expression of enumeration type from having a value that falls outside this range.
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— end example ] Each enum-name and each unscoped enumerator is declared in the scope that immediately contains the enum-specifier. Each scoped enumerator is declared in the scope of the enumeration. These names obey the scope rules defined for all names in (3.3) and (3.4).[ Example: enum direction { left=’l’, right=’r’ }; void g() { direction d; d = left; d = direction::right; }
// OK // OK // OK
enum class altitude { high=’h’, low=’l’ }; void h() { altitude a; a = high; a = altitude::low; }
// OK // error: high not in scope // OK
— end example ] An enumerator declared in class scope can be referred to using the class member access operators (::, . (dot) and -> (arrow)), see 5.2.5. [ Example: struct X { enum direction { left=’l’, right=’r’ }; int f(int i) { return i==left ? 0 : i==right ? 1 : 2; } }; void g(X* p) { direction d; int i; i = p->f(left); i = p->f(X::right); i = p->f(p->left); // ... }
// error: direction not in scope // error: left not in scope // OK // OK
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A namespace is an optionally-named declarative region. The name of a namespace can be used to access entities declared in that namespace; that is, the members of the namespace. Unlike other declarative regions, the definition of a namespace can be split over several parts of one or more translation units. The outermost declarative region of a translation unit is a namespace; see 3.3.6.
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Namespace definition
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The grammar for a namespace-definition is namespace-name: original-namespace-name namespace-alias
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— end example ] The enclosing namespaces of a declaration are those namespaces in which the declaration lexically appears, except for a redeclaration of a namespace member outside its original namespace (e.g., a definition as specified in 7.3.1.2). Such a redeclaration has the same enclosing namespaces as the original declaration. [ Example: namespace Q { namespace V { void f(); // enclosing namespaces are the global namespace, Q, and Q::V class C { void m(); }; } void V::f() { // enclosing namespaces are the global namespace, Q, and Q::V extern void h(); // ... so this declares Q::V::h } void V::C::m() { // enclosing namespaces are the global namespace, Q, and Q::V } }
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If the optional initial inline keyword appears in a namespace-definition for a particular namespace, that namespace is declared to be an inline namespace. The inline keyword may be used on an extensionnamespace-definition only if it was previously used on the original-namespace-definition for that namespace. Members of an inline namespace can be used in most respects as though they were members of the enclosing namespace. Specifically, the inline namespace and its enclosing namespace are both added to the set of associated namespaces used in argument-dependent lookup (3.4.2) whenever one of them is, and a usingdirective (7.3.4) that names the inline namespace is implicitly inserted into the enclosing namespace as for an unnamed namespace (7.3.1.1). Furthermore, each member of the inline namespace can subsequently be explicitly instantiated (14.7.2) or explicitly specialized (14.7.3) as though it were a member of the enclosing namespace. Finally, looking up a name in the enclosing namespace via explicit qualification (3.4.3.2) will include members of the inline namespace brought in by the using-directive even if there are declarations of that name in the enclosing namespace. These properties are transitive: if a namespace N contains an inline namespace M, which in turn contains an inline namespace O, then the members of O can be used as though they were members of M or N. The inline namespace set of N is the transitive closure of all inline namespaces in N. The enclosing namespace set of O is the set of namespaces consisting of the innermost non-inline namespace enclosing an inline namespace O, together with any intervening inline namespaces. 7.3.1.1 Unnamed namespaces [namespace.unnamed] An unnamed-namespace-definition behaves as if it were replaced by inlineopt namespace unique { /* empty body */ } using namespace unique ; namespace unique { namespace-body }
where inline appears if and only if it appears in the unnamed-namespace-definition, all occurrences of unique in a translation unit are replaced by the same identifier, and this identifier differs from all other identifiers in the entire program.94 [ Example: namespace { int i; } void f() { i++; } namespace A { namespace { int i; int j; } void g() { i++; } } using namespace A; void h() { i++; A::i++; j++; }
// unique ::i // unique ::i++
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// error: unique ::i or A:: unique ::i // A:: unique ::i // A:: unique ::j
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— end example ] Members of a named namespace can also be defined outside that namespace by explicit qualification (3.4.3.2) of the name being defined, provided that the entity being defined was already declared in the namespace and the definition appears after the point of declaration in a namespace that encloses the declaration’s namespace. [ Example: namespace Q { namespace V void f(); } void V::f() void V::g() namespace V void g(); } }
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— end example ] Every name first declared in a namespace is a member of that namespace. If a friend declaration in a nonlocal class first declares a class or function95 the friend class or function is a member of the innermost enclosing namespace. The name of the friend is not found by unqualified lookup (3.4.1) or by qualified lookup (3.4.3) until a matching declaration is provided in that namespace scope (either before or after the class definition granting friendship). If a friend function is called, its name may be found by the name lookup that considers functions from namespaces and classes associated with the types of the function arguments (3.4.2). If the name in a friend declaration is neither qualified nor a template-id and the declaration is a function or an elaborated-type-specifier, the lookup to determine whether the entity has been previously declared shall not consider any scopes outside the innermost enclosing namespace. [ Note: The other forms of friend declarations cannot declare a new member of the innermost enclosing namespace and thus follow the usual lookup rules. — end note ] [ Example: // Assume f and g have not yet been defined. void h(int); template void f2(T); namespace A { class X { friend void f(X); // A::f(X) is a friend class Y { friend void g(); // A::g is a friend friend void h(int); // A::h is a friend // ::h not considered friend void f2(int); // ::f2(int) is a friend }; }; // A::f, A::g and A::h are not visible here X x; void g() { f(x); } // definition of A::g void f(X) { /* ... */} // definition of A::f void h(int) { /* ... */ } // definition of A::h 95) this implies that the name of the class or function is unqualified.
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// A::f, A::g and A::h are visible here and known to be friends } using A::x; void h() { A::f(x); A::X::f(x); A::X::Y::g(); }
// error: f is not a member of A::X // error: g is not a member of A::X::Y
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A namespace-alias-definition declares an alternate name for a namespace according to the following grammar: namespace-alias: identifier namespace-alias-definition: namespace identifier = qualified-namespace-specifier ; qualified-namespace-specifier: nested-name-specifieropt namespace-name
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Company_with_very_long_name { /∗ ... ∗/ } CWVLN = Company_with_very_long_name; CWVLN = Company_with_very_long_name; CWVLN = CWVLN;
The using declaration
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— end example ] In a using-declaration used as a member-declaration, the nested-name-specifier shall name a base class of the class being defined. If such a using-declaration names a constructor, the nested-name-specifier shall name a direct base class of the class being defined; otherwise it introduces the set of declarations found by member name lookup (10.2, 3.4.3.1). [ Example: class C { int g(); }; class D2 : public B { using B::f; using B::e; using B::x; using C::g; };
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— end example ] [ Note: Since destructors do not have names, a using-declaration cannot refer to a destructor for a base class. Since specializations of member templates for conversion functions are not found by name lookup, they are not considered when a using-declaration specifies a conversion function (14.5.2). — end note ] If an assignment operator brought from a base class into a derived class scope has the signature of a copy/move assignment operator for the derived class (12.8), the using-declaration does not by itself suppress the implicit declaration of the derived class assignment operator; the copy/move assignment operator from the base class is hidden or overridden by the implicitly-declared copy/move assignment operator of the derived class, as described below. A using-declaration shall not name a template-id. [ Example: struct A { template void f(T); template struct X { }; }; struct B : A { using A::f; // ill-formed using A::X; // ill-formed };
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— end example ] A using-declaration shall not name a namespace. A using-declaration shall not name a scoped enumerator. A using-declaration for a class member shall be a member-declaration. [ Example: struct X { int i; static int s; };
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// // // //
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— end example ] Members declared by a using-declaration can be referred to by explicit qualification just like other member names (3.4.3.2). In a using-declaration, a prefix :: refers to the global namespace. [ Example: void f(); namespace A { void g(); } namespace X { using ::f; using A::g; } void h() { X::f(); X::g(); }
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// global f // A’s g
// calls ::f // calls A::g
— end example ] A using-declaration is a declaration and can therefore be used repeatedly where (and only where) multiple declarations are allowed. [ Example: namespace A { int i; } namespace A1 { using A::i; using A::i; } void f() { using A::i; using A::i; }
// OK: double declaration
// error: double declaration
struct B { int i; }; struct X : B { using B::i; using B::i; };
// error: double member declaration
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The entity declared by a using-declaration shall be known in the context using it according to its definition at the point of the using-declaration. Definitions added to the namespace after the using-declaration are not considered when a use of the name is made. [ Example: namespace A { void f(int); } using A::f;
// f is a synonym for A::f; // that is, for A::f(int).
namespace A { void f(char); } void foo() { f(’a’); } void bar() { using A::f; f(’a’);
// calls f(int), // even though f(char) exists.
// f is a synonym for A::f; // that is, for A::f(int) and A::f(char). // calls f(char)
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— end example ] [ Note: Partial specializations of class templates are found by looking up the primary class template and then considering all partial specializations of that template. If a using-declaration names a class template, partial specializations introduced after the using-declaration are effectively visible because the primary template is visible (14.5.5). — end note ] Since a using-declaration is a declaration, the restrictions on declarations of the same name in the same declarative region (3.3) also apply to using-declarations. [ Example: namespace A { int x; } namespace B { int i; struct g { }; struct x { }; void f(int); void f(double); void g(char); } void func() { int i; using B::i; void f(char); using B::f; f(3.5); using B::g; g(’a’); struct g g1; using B::x; using A::x;
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// error: i declared twice // OK: each f is a function // calls B::f(double) // calls B::g(char) // g1 has class type B::g // OK: hides struct B::x
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— end example ] If a function declaration in namespace scope or block scope has the same name and the same parametertype-list (8.3.5) as a function introduced by a using-declaration, and the declarations do not declare the same function, the program is ill-formed. If a function template declaration in namespace scope has the same name, parameter-type-list, return type, and template parameter list as a function template introduced by a using-declaration, the program is ill-formed. [ Note: Two using-declarations may introduce functions with the same name and the same parameter-type-list. If, for a call to an unqualified function name, function overload resolution selects the functions introduced by such using-declarations, the function call is ill-formed. [ Example: namespace B { void f(int); void f(double); } namespace C { void f(int); void f(double); void f(char); } void h() { using B::f; using C::f; f(’h’); f(1); void f(int); }
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// // // // //
B::f(int) and B::f(double) C::f(int), C::f(double), and C::f(char) calls C::f(char) error: ambiguous: B::f(int) or C::f(int)? error: f(int) conflicts with C::f(int) and B::f(int)
— end example ] — end note ] When a using-declaration brings names from a base class into a derived class scope, member functions and member function templates in the derived class override and/or hide member functions and member function templates with the same name, parameter-type-list (8.3.5), cv-qualification, and ref-qualifier (if any) in a base class (rather than conflicting). [ Note: For using-declarations that name a constructor, see 12.9. — end note ] [ Example: struct B { virtual void f(int); virtual void f(char); void g(int); void h(int); }; struct D : B { using B::f; void f(int);
// OK: D::f(int) overrides B::f(int);
using B::g; void g(char);
// OK
using B::h; void h(int);
// OK: D::h(int) hides B::h(int)
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// // // //
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— end example ] For the purpose of overload resolution, the functions which are introduced by a using-declaration into a derived class will be treated as though they were members of the derived class. In particular, the implicit this parameter shall be treated as if it were a pointer to the derived class rather than to the base class. This has no effect on the type of the function, and in all other respects the function remains a member of the base class. The access rules for inheriting constructors are specified in 12.9; otherwise all instances of the name mentioned in a using-declaration shall be accessible. In particular, if a derived class uses a using-declaration to access a member of a base class, the member name shall be accessible. If the name is that of an overloaded member function, then all functions named shall be accessible. The base class members mentioned by a using-declaration shall be visible in the scope of at least one of the direct base classes of the class where the using-declaration is specified. [ Note: Because a using-declaration designates a base class member (and not a member subobject or a member function of a base class subobject), a using-declaration cannot be used to resolve inherited member ambiguities. For example, struct A { int x(); }; struct B : A { }; struct C : A { using A::x; int x(int); }; struct D : B, C { using C::x; int x(double); }; int f(D* d) { return d->x(); }
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// ambiguous: B::x or C::x
— end note ] The alias created by the using-declaration has the usual accessibility for a member-declaration. [ Note: A using-declaration that names a constructor does not create aliases; see 12.9 for the pertinent accessibility rules. — end note ] [ Example: class A { private: void f(char); public: void f(int); protected: void g(); }; class B : public A { using A::f; // error: A::f(char) is inaccessible public:
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// B::g is a public synonym for A::g
— end example ] If a using-declaration uses the keyword typename and specifies a dependent name (14.6.2), the name introduced by the using-declaration is treated as a typedef-name (7.1.3).
7.3.4
Using directive
[namespace.udir]
using-directive: attribute-specifier-seqopt using namespace nested-name-specifieropt namespace-name ; 1
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A using-directive shall not appear in class scope, but may appear in namespace scope or in block scope. [ Note: When looking up a namespace-name in a using-directive, only namespace names are considered, see 3.4.6. — end note ] The optional attribute-specifier-seq appertains to the using-directive. A using-directive specifies that the names in the nominated namespace can be used in the scope in which the using-directive appears after the using-directive. During unqualified name lookup (3.4.1), the names appear as if they were declared in the nearest enclosing namespace which contains both the using-directive and the nominated namespace. [ Note: In this context, “contains” means “contains directly or indirectly”. — end note ] A using-directive does not add any members to the declarative region in which it appears. [ Example: namespace A { int i; namespace B { namespace C { int i; } using namespace void f1() { i = 5; } } namespace D { using namespace using namespace void f2() { i = 5; } } void f3() { i = 5; } } void f4() { i = 5; }
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A::B::C; // OK, C::i visible in B and hides A::i
B; C; // ambiguous, B::C::i or A::i?
// uses A::i
// ill-formed; neither i is visible
— end example ] For unqualified lookup (3.4.1), the using-directive is transitive: if a scope contains a using-directive that nominates a second namespace that itself contains using-directives, the effect is as if the using-directives from the second namespace also appeared in the first. [ Note: For qualified lookup, see 3.4.3.2. — end note ] [ Example: namespace M { int i; }
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namespace N { int i; using namespace M; } void f() { using namespace N; i = 7; // error: both M::i and N::i are visible }
For another example, namespace A { int i; } namespace B { int i; int j; namespace C { namespace D { using namespace A; int j; int k; int a = i; // B::i hides A::i } using namespace D; int k = 89; // no problem yet int l = k; // ambiguous: C::k or D::k int m = i; // B::i hides A::i int n = j; // D::j hides B::j } } 5
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— end example ] If a namespace is extended by an extension-namespace-definition after a using-directive for that namespace is given, the additional members of the extended namespace and the members of namespaces nominated by using-directives in the extension-namespace-definition can be used after the extension-namespace-definition. If name lookup finds a declaration for a name in two different namespaces, and the declarations do not declare the same entity and do not declare functions, the use of the name is ill-formed. [ Note: In particular, the name of a variable, function or enumerator does not hide the name of a class or enumeration declared in a different namespace. For example, namespace A { class X { }; extern "C" int extern "C++" int } namespace B { void X(int); extern "C" int extern "C++" int } using namespace A; using namespace B;
g(); h();
g(); h(int);
void f() {
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// error: name X found in two namespaces // okay: name g refers to the same entity // okay: overload resolution selects A::h
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— end note ] During overload resolution, all functions from the transitive search are considered for argument matching. The set of declarations found by the transitive search is unordered. [ Note: In particular, the order in which namespaces were considered and the relationships among the namespaces implied by the using-directives do not cause preference to be given to any of the declarations found by the search. — end note ] An ambiguity exists if the best match finds two functions with the same signature, even if one is in a namespace reachable through using-directives in the namespace of the other.96 [ Example: namespace D { int d1; void f(char); } using namespace D; int d1;
// OK: no conflict with D::d1
namespace E { int e; void f(int); } namespace D { // namespace extension int d2; using namespace E; void f(int); } void f() { d1++; ::d1++; D::d1++; d2++; e++; f(1); f(’a’); }
// // // // // // //
error: ambiguous ::d1 or D::d1? OK OK OK: D::d2 OK: E::e error: ambiguous: D::f(int) or E::f(int)? OK: D::f(char)
— end example ]
7.4 1
The asm declaration
[dcl.asm]
An asm declaration has the form asm-definition: asm ( string-literal ) ;
The asm declaration is conditionally-supported; its meaning is implementation-defined. [ Note: Typically it is used to pass information through the implementation to an assembler. — end note ]
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Linkage specifications
[dcl.link]
All function types, function names with external linkage, and variable names with external linkage have a language linkage. [ Note: Some of the properties associated with an entity with language linkage are specific 96) During name lookup in a class hierarchy, some ambiguities may be resolved by considering whether one member hides the other along some paths (10.2). There is no such disambiguation when considering the set of names found as a result of following using-directives.
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to each implementation and are not described here. For example, a particular language linkage may be associated with a particular form of representing names of objects and functions with external linkage, or with a particular calling convention, etc. — end note ] The default language linkage of all function types, function names, and variable names is C++ language linkage. Two function types with different language linkages are distinct types even if they are otherwise identical. Linkage (3.5) between C++ and non-C++ code fragments can be achieved using a linkage-specification: linkage-specification: extern string-literal { declaration-seqopt } extern string-literal declaration
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The string-literal indicates the required language linkage. This International Standard specifies the semantics for the string-literals "C" and "C++". Use of a string-literal other than "C" or "C++" is conditionallysupported, with implementation-defined semantics. [ Note: Therefore, a linkage-specification with a stringliteral that is unknown to the implementation requires a diagnostic. — end note ] [ Note: It is recommended that the spelling of the string-literal be taken from the document defining that language. For example, Ada (not ADA) and Fortran or FORTRAN, depending on the vintage. — end note ] Every implementation shall provide for linkage to functions written in the C programming language, "C", and linkage to C++ functions, "C++". [ Example: complex sqrt(complex); extern "C" { double sqrt(double); }
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— end example ] Linkage specifications nest. When linkage specifications nest, the innermost one determines the language linkage. A linkage specification does not establish a scope. A linkage-specification shall occur only in namespace scope (3.3). In a linkage-specification, the specified language linkage applies to the function types of all function declarators, function names with external linkage, and variable names with external linkage declared within the linkage-specification. [ Example: extern "C" void f1(void(*pf)(int)); // the name f1 and its function type have C language // linkage; pf is a pointer to a C function extern "C" typedef void FUNC(); FUNC f2; // the name f2 has C++ language linkage and the // function’s type has C language linkage extern "C" FUNC f3; // the name of function f3 and the function’s type // have C language linkage void (*pf2)(FUNC*); // the name of the variable pf2 has C++ linkage and // the type of pf2 is pointer to C++ function that // takes one parameter of type pointer to C function extern "C" { static void f4(); // the name of the function f4 has // internal linkage (not C language // linkage) and the function’s type // has C language linkage. } extern "C" void f5() { extern void f4();
// // // //
OK: Name linkage (internal) and function type linkage (C language linkage) gotten from previous declaration.
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// // // //
OK: Name linkage (internal) and function type linkage (C language linkage) gotten from previous declaration.
} void f6() { extern void f4();
}
— end example ] A C language linkage is ignored in determining the language linkage of the names of class members and the function type of class member functions. [ Example: extern "C" typedef void FUNC_c(); class C { void mf1(FUNC_c*); // the name of the function mf1 and the member // function’s type have C++ language linkage; the // parameter has type pointer to C function FUNC_c mf2; // the name of the function mf2 and the member // function’s type have C++ language linkage static FUNC_c* q; // the name of the data member q has C++ language // linkage and the data member’s type is pointer to // C function }; extern "C" { class X { void mf(); void mf2(void(*)());
// // // // //
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units. [ Note: Only one definition for an entity with a given name with C language linkage may appear in the program (see 3.2); this implies that such an entity must not be defined in more than one namespace scope. — end note ] [ Example: int x; namespace A { extern "C" int extern "C" int extern "C" int extern "C" int }
f(); g() { return 1; } h(); x();
namespace B { extern "C" int f(); extern "C" int g() { return 1; }
// ill-formed: same name as global-space object x
// A::f and B::f refer to the same function // ill-formed, the function g // with C language linkage has two definitions
} int A::f() { return 98; } extern "C" int h() { return 97; }
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— end example ] A declaration directly contained in a linkage-specification is treated as if it contains the extern specifier (7.1.1) for the purpose of determining the linkage of the declared name and whether it is a definition. Such a declaration shall not specify a storage class. [ Example: extern "C" double f(); static double f(); extern "C" int i; extern "C" { int i; } extern "C" static void g();
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— end example ] [ Note: Because the language linkage is part of a function type, when a pointer to C function (for example) is dereferenced, the function to which it refers is considered a C function. — end note ] Linkage from C++ to objects defined in other languages and to objects defined in C++ from other languages is implementation-defined and language-dependent. Only where the object layout strategies of two language implementations are similar enough can such linkage be achieved.
7.6
Attributes
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//definition for the function f with C language linkage // definition for the function h with C language linkage // A::h and ::h refer to the same function
Attribute syntax and semantics
[dcl.attr] [dcl.attr.grammar]
Attributes specify additional information for various source constructs such as types, variables, names, blocks, or translation units. attribute-specifier-seq: attribute-specifier-seqopt attribute-specifier attribute-specifier: [ [ attribute-list ] ] alignment-specifier alignment-specifier: alignas ( type-id ...opt ) alignas ( alignment-expression ...opt )
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attribute-list: attributeopt attribute-list , attributeopt attribute ... attribute-list , attribute ... attribute: attribute-token attribute-argument-clauseopt attribute-token: identifier attribute-scoped-token attribute-scoped-token: attribute-namespace :: identifier attribute-namespace: identifier attribute-argument-clause: ( balanced-token-seq ) balanced-token-seq: balanced-tokenopt balanced-token-seq balanced-token balanced-token: ( balanced-token-seq ) [ balanced-token-seq ] { balanced-token-seq } any token other than a parenthesis, a bracket, or a brace 2 3
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[ Note: For each individual attribute, the form of the balanced-token-seq will be specified. — end note ] In an attribute-list, an ellipsis may appear only if that attribute’s specification permits it. An attribute followed by an ellipsis is a pack expansion (14.5.3). An attribute-specifier that contains no attributes has no effect. The order in which the attribute-tokens appear in an attribute-list is not significant. If a keyword (2.12) or an alternative token (2.6) that satisfies the syntactic requirements of an identifier (2.11) is contained in an attribute-token, it is considered an identifier. No name lookup (3.4) is performed on any of the identifiers contained in an attribute-token. The attribute-token determines additional requirements on the attribute-argument-clause (if any). The use of an attribute-scoped-token is conditionally-supported, with implementation-defined behavior. [ Note: Each implementation should choose a distinctive name for the attribute-namespace in an attribute-scoped-token. — end note ] Each attribute-specifier-seq is said to appertain to some entity or statement, identified by the syntactic context where it appears (Clause 6, Clause 7, Clause 8). If an attribute-specifier-seq that appertains to some entity or statement contains an attribute that is not allowed to apply to that entity or statement, the program is ill-formed. If an attribute-specifier-seq appertains to a friend declaration (11.3), that declaration shall be a definition. No attribute-specifier-seq shall appertain to an explicit instantiation (14.7.2). For an attribute-token not specified in this International Standard, the behavior is implementation-defined. Two consecutive left square bracket tokens shall appear only when introducing an attribute-specifier. [ Note: If two consecutive left square brackets appear where an attribute-specifier is not allowed, the program is ill formed even if the brackets match an alternative grammar production. — end note ] [ Example: int p[10]; void f() { int x = 42, y[5]; int(p[[x] { return x; }()]);
y[[] { return 2; }()] = 2;
// // // // //
error: malformed attribute on a nested declarator-id and not a function-style cast of an element of p. error even though attributes are not allowed in this context.
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— end example ]
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Alignment specifier
[dcl.align]
An alignment-specifier may be applied to a variable or to a class data member, but it shall not be applied to a bit-field, a function parameter, the formal parameter of a catch clause (15.3), or a variable declared with the register storage class specifier. An alignment-specifier may also be applied to the declaration of a class or enumeration type. An alignment-specifier with an ellipsis is a pack expansion (14.5.3). When the alignment-specifier is of the form alignas( assignment-expression ): — the assignment-expression shall be an integral constant expression — if the constant expression evaluates to a fundamental alignment, the alignment requirement of the declared entity shall be the specified fundamental alignment — if the constant expression evaluates to an extended alignment and the implementation supports that alignment in the context of the declaration, the alignment of the declared entity shall be that alignment — if the constant expression evaluates to an extended alignment and the implementation does not support that alignment in the context of the declaration, the program is ill-formed — if the constant expression evaluates to zero, the alignment specifier shall have no effect — otherwise, the program is ill-formed.
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When the alignment-specifier is of the form alignas( type-id ), it shall have the same effect as alignas( alignof(type-id )) (5.3.6). When multiple alignment-specifiers are specified for an entity, the alignment requirement shall be set to the strictest specified alignment. The combined effect of all alignment-specifiers in a declaration shall not specify an alignment that is less strict than the alignment that would be required for the entity being declared if all alignment-specifiers were omitted (including those in other declarations). If the defining declaration of an entity has an alignment-specifier, any non-defining declaration of that entity shall either specify equivalent alignment or have no alignment-specifier. Conversely, if any declaration of an entity has an alignment-specifier, every defining declaration of that entity shall specify an equivalent alignment. No diagnostic is required if declarations of an entity have different alignment-specifiers in different translation units. [ Example: // Translation unit #1: struct S { int x; } s, p = &s; // Translation unit #2: struct alignas(16) S; extern S* p;
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— end example ] [ Example: An aligned buffer with an alignment requirement of A and holding N elements of type T other than char, signed char, or unsigned char can be declared as: alignas(T) alignas(A) T buffer[N];
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// error: alignment applied to function // array of characters, suitably aligned for a double // no alignas necessary // error: different alignment in declaration
— end example ]
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Noreturn attribute
[dcl.attr.noreturn]
The attribute-token noreturn specifies that a function does not return. It shall appear at most once in each attribute-list and no attribute-argument-clause shall be present. The attribute may be applied to the declarator-id in a function declaration. The first declaration of a function shall specify the noreturn attribute if any declaration of that function specifies the noreturn attribute. If a function is declared with the noreturn attribute in one translation unit and the same function is declared without the noreturn attribute in another translation unit, the program is ill-formed; no diagnostic required. If a function f is called where f was previously declared with the noreturn attribute and f eventually returns, the behavior is undefined. [ Note: The function may terminate by throwing an exception. — end note ] [ Note: Implementations are encouraged to issue a warning if a function marked [[noreturn]] might return. — end note ] [ Example: [[ noreturn ]] void f() { throw "error"; // OK } [[ noreturn ]] void q(int i) { // behavior is undefined if called with an argument 0) throw "positive"; }
— end example ]
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Carries dependency attribute
[dcl.attr.depend]
The attribute-token carries_dependency specifies dependency propagation into and out of functions. It shall appear at most once in each attribute-list and no attribute-argument-clause shall be present. The attribute may be applied to the declarator-id of a parameter-declaration in a function declaration or lambda, in which case it specifies that the initialization of the parameter carries a dependency to (1.10) each lvalueto-rvalue conversion (4.1) of that object. The attribute may also be applied to the declarator-id of a function declaration, in which case it specifies that the return value, if any, carries a dependency to the evaluation of the function call expression. The first declaration of a function shall specify the carries_dependency attribute for its declarator-id if any declaration of the function specifies the carries_dependency attribute. Furthermore, the first declaration of a function shall specify the carries_dependency attribute for a parameter if any declaration of that function specifies the carries_dependency attribute for that parameter. If a function or one of its parameters is declared with the carries_dependency attribute in its first declaration in one translation unit and the same function or one of its parameters is declared without the carries_dependency attribute in its first declaration in another translation unit, the program is ill-formed; no diagnostic required. [ Note: The carries_dependency attribute does not change the meaning of the program, but may result in generation of more efficient code. — end note ] [ Example: /∗ Translation unit A. ∗/ struct foo { int* a; int* b; }; std::atomic foo_head[10];
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int foo_array[10][10]; [[carries_dependency]] struct foo* f(int i) { return foo_head[i].load(memory_order_consume); } [[carries_dependency]] int g(int* x, int* y) { return kill_dependency(foo_array[*x][*y]); } /∗ Translation unit B. ∗/ [[carries_dependency]] struct foo* f(int i); [[carries_dependency]] int* g(int* x, int* y); int c = 3; void h(int i) { struct foo* p; p = f(i); do_something_with(g(&c, p->a)); do_something_with(g(p->a, &c)); } 5
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The carries_dependency attribute on function f means that the return value carries a dependency out of f, so that the implementation need not constrain ordering upon return from f. Implementations of f and its caller may choose to preserve dependencies instead of emitting hardware memory ordering instructions (a.k.a. fences). Function g’s second argument has a carries_dependency attribute, but its first argument does not. Therefore, function h’s first call to g carries a dependency into g, but its second call does not. The implementation might need to insert a fence prior to the second call to g. — end example ]
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[dcl.decl]
A declarator declares a single variable, function, or type, within a declaration. The init-declarator-list appearing in a declaration is a comma-separated sequence of declarators, each of which can have an initializer. init-declarator-list: init-declarator init-declarator-list , init-declarator init-declarator: declarator initializeropt
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The three components of a simple-declaration are the attributes (7.6), the specifiers (decl-specifier-seq; 7.1) and the declarators (init-declarator-list). The specifiers indicate the type, storage class or other properties of the entities being declared. The declarators specify the names of these entities and (optionally) modify the type of the specifiers with operators such as * (pointer to) and () (function returning). Initial values can also be specified in a declarator; initializers are discussed in 8.5 and 12.6. Each init-declarator in a declaration is analyzed separately as if it was in a declaration by itself.97 Declarators have the syntax declarator: ptr-declarator noptr-declarator parameters-and-qualifiers trailing-return-type ptr-declarator: noptr-declarator ptr-operator ptr-declarator noptr-declarator: declarator-id attribute-specifier-seqopt noptr-declarator parameters-and-qualifiers noptr-declarator [ constant-expressionopt ] attribute-specifier-seqopt ( ptr-declarator ) parameters-and-qualifiers: ( parameter-declaration-clause ) cv-qualifier-seqopt ref-qualifieropt exception-specificationopt attribute-specifier-seqopt trailing-return-type: -> trailing-type-specifier-seq abstract-declaratoropt 97) A declaration with several declarators is usually equivalent to the corresponding sequence of declarations each with a single declarator. That is T D1, D2, ... Dn; is usually equivalent to T D1; T D2; ... T Dn; where T is a decl-specifier-seq and each Di is an init-declarator. An exception occurs when a name introduced by one of the declarators hides a type name used by the decl-specifiers, so that when the same decl-specifiers are used in a subsequent declaration, they do not have the same meaning, as in struct S ... ; S S, T; // declare two instances of struct S which is not equivalent to struct S ... ; S S; S T; // error Another exception occurs when T is auto (7.1.6.4), for example: auto i = 1, j = 2.0; // error: deduced types for i and j do not match as opposed to auto i = 1; // OK: i deduced to have type int auto j = 2.0; // OK: j deduced to have type double
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ptr-operator: * attribute-specifier-seqopt cv-qualifier-seqopt & attribute-specifier-seqopt && attribute-specifier-seqopt nested-name-specifier * attribute-specifier-seqopt cv-qualifier-seqopt cv-qualifier-seq: cv-qualifier cv-qualifier-seqopt cv-qualifier: const volatile ref-qualifier: & && declarator-id: ...opt id-expression nested-name-specifieropt class-name
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A class-name has special meaning in a declaration of the class of that name and when qualified by that name using the scope resolution operator :: (5.1, 12.1, 12.4). The optional attribute-specifier-seq in a trailing-return-type appertains to the indicated return type. The type-id in a trailing-return-type includes the longest possible sequence of abstract-declarators. [ Note: This resolves the ambiguous binding of array and function declarators. [ Example: auto f()->int(*)[4];
// function returning a pointer to array[4] of int // not function returning array[4] of pointer to int
— end example ] — end note ]
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Type names
[dcl.name]
To specify type conversions explicitly, and as an argument of sizeof, alignof, new, or typeid, the name of a type shall be specified. This can be done with a type-id, which is syntactically a declaration for a variable or function of that type that omits the name of the entity. type-id: type-specifier-seq abstract-declaratoropt abstract-declarator: ptr-abstract-declarator noptr-abstract-declaratoropt parameters-and-qualifiers trailing-return-type abstract-pack-declarator ptr-abstract-declarator: noptr-abstract-declarator ptr-operator ptr-abstract-declaratoropt noptr-abstract-declarator: noptr-abstract-declaratoropt parameters-and-qualifiers noptr-abstract-declaratoropt [ constant-expressionopt ] attribute-specifier-seqopt ( ptr-abstract-declarator ) abstract-pack-declarator: noptr-abstract-pack-declarator ptr-operator abstract-pack-declarator noptr-abstract-pack-declarator: noptr-abstract-pack-declarator parameters-and-qualifiers noptr-abstract-pack-declarator [ constant-expressionopt ] attribute-specifier-seqopt ...
It is possible to identify uniquely the location in the abstract-declarator where the identifier would appear if the construction were a declarator in a declaration. The named type is then the same as the type of the hypothetical identifier. [ Example: § 8.1
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i *pi *p[3] (*p3i)[3] *f() (*pf)(double)
name respectively the types “int,” “pointer to int,” “array of 3 pointers to int,” “pointer to array of 3 int,” “function of (no parameters) returning pointer to int,” and “pointer to a function of (double) returning int.” — end example ] A type can also be named (often more easily) by using a typedef (7.1.3).
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[dcl.ambig.res]
The ambiguity arising from the similarity between a function-style cast and a declaration mentioned in 6.8 can also occur in the context of a declaration. In that context, the choice is between a function declaration with a redundant set of parentheses around a parameter name and an object declaration with a function-style cast as the initializer. Just as for the ambiguities mentioned in 6.8, the resolution is to consider any construct that could possibly be a declaration a declaration. [ Note: A declaration can be explicitly disambiguated by a nonfunction-style cast, by an = to indicate initialization or by removing the redundant parentheses around the parameter name. — end note ] [ Example: struct S { S(int); }; void foo(double a) { S w(int(a)); // S x(int()); // S y((int)a); // S z = int(a); // }
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function declaration function declaration object declaration object declaration
— end example ] The ambiguity arising from the similarity between a function-style cast and a type-id can occur in different contexts. The ambiguity appears as a choice between a function-style cast expression and a declaration of a type. The resolution is that any construct that could possibly be a type-id in its syntactic context shall be considered a type-id. [ Example: #include char *p; void *operator new(std::size_t, int); void foo() { const int x = 63; new (int(*p)) int; // new-placement expression new (int(*[x])); // new type-id }
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For another example, § 8.2
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// expression // type-id (ill-formed)
For another example, void foo() { (int(1)); (int())1; }
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— end example ] Another ambiguity arises in a parameter-declaration-clause of a function declaration, or in a type-id that is the operand of a sizeof or typeid operator, when a type-name is nested in parentheses. In this case, the choice is between the declaration of a parameter of type pointer to function and the declaration of a parameter with redundant parentheses around the declarator-id. The resolution is to consider the type-name as a simple-type-specifier rather than a declarator-id. [ Example: class C { }; void f(int(C)) { }
// void f(int(*fp)(C c)) { } // not: void f(int C);
int g(C); void foo() { f(1); f(g); }
// error: cannot convert 1 to function pointer // OK
For another example, class C { }; void h(int *(C[10]));
// void h(int *(*_fp)(C _parm[10])); // not: void h(int *C[10]);
— end example ]
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A list of declarators appears after an optional (Clause 7) decl-specifier-seq (7.1). Each declarator contains exactly one declarator-id; it names the identifier that is declared. An unqualified-id occurring in a declaratorid shall be a simple identifier except for the declaration of some special functions (12.3, 12.4, 13.5) and for the declaration of template specializations or partial specializations (14.7). When the declarator-id is qualified, the declaration shall refer to a previously declared member of the class or namespace to which the qualifier refers (or, in the case of a namespace, of an element of the inline namespace set of that namespace (7.3.1)) or to a specialization thereof; the member shall not merely have been introduced by a using-declaration in the scope of the class or namespace nominated by the nested-name-specifier of the declarator-id. The nested-name-specifier of a qualified declarator-id shall not begin with a decltype-specifier. [ Note: If the qualifier is the global :: scope resolution operator, the declarator-id refers to a name declared in the global namespace scope. — end note ] The optional attribute-specifier-seq following a declarator-id appertains to the entity that is declared. A static, thread_local, extern, register, mutable, friend, inline, virtual, or typedef specifier applies directly to each declarator-id in an init-declarator-list; the type specified for each declarator-id depends on both the decl-specifier-seq and its declarator. Thus, a declaration of a particular identifier has the form T D
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where T is of the form attribute-specifier-seqopt decl-specifier-seq and D is a declarator. Following is a recursive procedure for determining the type specified for the contained declarator-id by such a declaration. First, the decl-specifier-seq determines a type. In a declaration T D
the decl-specifier-seq T determines the type T. [ Example: in the declaration int unsigned i; 5
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the type specifiers int unsigned determine the type “unsigned int” (7.1.6.2). — end example ] In a declaration attribute-specifier-seqopt T D where D is an unadorned identifier the type of this identifier is “T”. In a declaration T D where D has the form ( D1 )
the type of the contained declarator-id is the same as that of the contained declarator-id in the declaration T D1
Parentheses do not alter the type of the embedded declarator-id, but they can alter the binding of complex declarators.
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Pointers
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and the type of the identifier in the declaration T D1 is “derived-declarator-type-list T,” then the type of the identifier of D is “derived-declarator-type-list cv-qualifier-seq pointer to T.” The cv-qualifiers apply to the pointer and not to the object pointed to. Similarly, the optional attribute-specifier-seq (7.6.1) appertains to the pointer and not to the object pointed to. [ Example: the declarations
* attribute-specifier-seqopt cv-qualifier-seqopt D1
const int ci = 10, *pc = &ci, *const cpc = pc, **ppc; int i, *p, *const cp = &i;
declare ci, a constant integer; pc, a pointer to a constant integer; cpc, a constant pointer to a constant integer; ppc, a pointer to a pointer to a constant integer; i, an integer; p, a pointer to integer; and cp, a constant pointer to integer. The value of ci, cpc, and cp cannot be changed after initialization. The value of pc can be changed, and so can the object pointed to by cp. Examples of some correct operations are i = ci; *cp = ci; pc++; pc = cpc; pc = p; ppc = &pc;
Examples of ill-formed operations are ci = 1; ci++; *pc = 2; cp = &ci; cpc++; p = pc; ppc = &p;
// // // // // // //
error error error error error error error
Each is unacceptable because it would either change the value of an object declared const or allow it to be changed through a cv-unqualified pointer later, for example:
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// OK, but would make p point to ci ... // ... because of previous error // clobber ci
— end example ] See also 5.17 and 8.5. [ Note: There are no pointers to references; see 8.3.2. Since the address of a bit-field (9.6) cannot be taken, a pointer can never point to a bit-field. — end note ]
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[dcl.ref]
In a declaration T D where D has either of the forms & attribute-specifier-seqopt D1 && attribute-specifier-seqopt D1
and the type of the identifier in the declaration T D1 is “derived-declarator-type-list T,” then the type of the identifier of D is “derived-declarator-type-list reference to T.” The optional attribute-specifier-seq appertains to the reference type. Cv-qualified references are ill-formed except when the cv-qualifiers are introduced through the use of a typedef (7.1.3) or of a template type argument (14.3), in which case the cv-qualifiers are ignored. [ Example: typedef int& A; const A aref = 3;
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The type of aref is “lvalue reference to int”, not “lvalue reference to const int”. — end example ] [ Note: A reference can be thought of as a name of an object. — end note ] A declarator that specifies the type “reference to cv void” is ill-formed. A reference type that is declared using & is called an lvalue reference, and a reference type that is declared using && is called an rvalue reference. Lvalue references and rvalue references are distinct types. Except where explicitly noted, they are semantically equivalent and commonly referred to as references. [ Example: void f(double& a) { a += 3.14; } // ... double d = 0; f(d);
declares a to be a reference parameter of f so the call f(d) will add 3.14 to d. int v[20]; // ... int& g(int i) { return v[i]; } // ... g(3) = 7;
declares the function g() to return a reference to an integer so g(3)=7 will assign 7 to the fourth element of the array v. For another example, struct link { link* next; }; link* first; void h(link*& p) { p->next = first; first = p; p = 0; }
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declares p to be a reference to a pointer to link so h(q) will leave q with the value zero. See also 8.5.3. — end example ] It is unspecified whether or not a reference requires storage (3.7). There shall be no references to references, no arrays of references, and no pointers to references. The declaration of a reference shall contain an initializer (8.5.3) except when the declaration contains an explicit extern specifier (7.1.1), is a class member (9.2) declaration within a class definition, or is the declaration of a parameter or a return type (8.3.5); see 3.1. A reference shall be initialized to refer to a valid object or function. [ Note: in particular, a null reference cannot exist in a well-defined program, because the only way to create such a reference would be to bind it to the “object” obtained by dereferencing a null pointer, which causes undefined behavior. As described in 9.6, a reference cannot be bound directly to a bit-field. — end note ] If a typedef (7.1.3), a type template-parameter (14.3.1), or a decltype-specifier (7.1.6.2) denotes a type TR that is a reference to a type T, an attempt to create the type “lvalue reference to cv TR” creates the type “lvalue reference to T”, while an attempt to create the type “rvalue reference to cv TR” creates the type TR. [ Example: int i; typedef int& LRI; typedef int&& RRI; LRI& r1 = i; const LRI& r2 = i; const LRI&& r3 = i;
// r1 has the type int& // r2 has the type int& // r3 has the type int&
RRI& r4 = i; RRI&& r5 = 5;
// r4 has the type int& // r5 has the type int&&
decltype(r2)& r6 = i; decltype(r2)&& r7 = i;
// r6 has the type int& // r7 has the type int&
— end example ]
8.3.3
Pointers to members
[dcl.mptr]
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In a declaration T D where D has the form
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and the nested-name-specifier denotes a class, and the type of the identifier in the declaration T D1 is “derived-declarator-type-list T”, then the type of the identifier of D is “derived-declarator-type-list cv-qualifierseq pointer to member of class nested-name-specifier of type T”. The optional attribute-specifier-seq (7.6.1) appertains to the pointer-to-member. [ Example:
nested-name-specifier * attribute-specifier-seqopt cv-qualifier-seqopt D1
struct X { void f(int); int a; }; struct Y; int X::* pmi = &X::a; void (X::* pmf)(int) = &X::f; double X::* pmd; char Y::* pmc;
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declares pmi, pmf, pmd and pmc to be a pointer to a member of X of type int, a pointer to a member of X of type void(int), a pointer to a member of X of type double and a pointer to a member of Y of type char respectively. The declaration of pmd is well-formed even though X has no members of type double. Similarly, the declaration of pmc is well-formed even though Y is an incomplete type. pmi and pmf can be used like this: X obj; // ... obj.*pmi = 7; (obj.*pmf)(7);
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— end example ] A pointer to member shall not point to a static member of a class (9.4), a member with reference type, or “cv void.” [ Note: See also 5.3 and 5.5. The type “pointer to member” is distinct from the type “pointer”, that is, a pointer to member is declared only by the pointer to member declarator syntax, and never by the pointer declarator syntax. There is no “reference-to-member” type in C++. — end note ]
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// // // //
Arrays
[dcl.array]
In a declaration T D where D has the form D1 [ constant-expressionopt ] attribute-specifier-seqopt
and the type of the identifier in the declaration T D1 is “derived-declarator-type-list T”, then the type of the identifier of D is an array type; if the type of the identifier of D contains the auto type-specifier, the program is ill-formed. T is called the array element type; this type shall not be a reference type, the (possibly cv-qualified) type void, a function type or an abstract class type. If the constant-expression (5.19) is present, it shall be an integral constant expression and its value shall be greater than zero. The constant expression specifies the bound of (number of elements in) the array. If the value of the constant expression is N, the array has N elements numbered 0 to N-1, and the type of the identifier of D is “derived-declarator-type-list array of N T”. An object of array type contains a contiguously allocated non-empty set of N subobjects of type T. Except as noted below, if the constant expression is omitted, the type of the identifier of D is “derived-declarator-typelist array of unknown bound of T”, an incomplete object type. The type “derived-declarator-type-list array of N T” is a different type from the type “derived-declarator-type-list array of unknown bound of T”, see 3.9. Any type of the form “cv-qualifier-seq array of N T” is adjusted to “array of N cv-qualifier-seq T”, and similarly for “array of unknown bound of T”. The optional attribute-specifier-seq appertains to the array. [ Example: typedef int A[5], AA[2][3]; typedef const A CA; typedef const AA CAA; 2
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// type is “array of 5 const int” // type is “array of 2 array of 3 const int”
— end example ] [ Note: An “array of N cv-qualifier-seq T” has cv-qualified type; see 3.9.3. — end note ] An array can be constructed from one of the fundamental types (except void), from a pointer, from a pointer to member, from a class, from an enumeration type, or from another array. When several “array of” specifications are adjacent, a multidimensional array is created; only the first of the constant expressions that specify the bounds of the arrays may be omitted. In addition to declarations in which an incomplete object type is allowed, an array bound may be omitted in some cases in the declaration of a function parameter (8.3.5). An array bound may also be omitted when the declarator is followed by an initializer (8.5). In this case the bound is calculated from the number of initial elements (say, N) supplied (8.5.1), and the type of the identifier of D is “array of N T.” Furthermore, if there is a preceding declaration of the entity in the same scope in which the bound was specified, an omitted array bound is taken to be the same as in that earlier declaration, and similarly for the definition of a static data member of a class. [ Example: float fa[17], *afp[17];
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declares an array of float numbers and an array of pointers to float numbers. For another example, static int x3d[3][5][7];
declares a static three-dimensional array of integers, with rank 3×5×7. In complete detail, x3d is an array of three items; each item is an array of five arrays; each of the latter arrays is an array of seven integers. Any of the expressions x3d, x3d[i], x3d[i][j], x3d[i][j][k] can reasonably appear in an expression. Finally, extern int x[10]; struct S { static int y[10]; }; int x[]; int S::y[]; void f() { extern int x[]; int i = sizeof(x); } 5
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// OK: bound is 10 // OK: bound is 10
// error: incomplete object type
— end example ] [ Note: conversions affecting expressions of array type are described in 4.2. Objects of array types cannot be modified, see 3.10. — end note ] [ Note: Except where it has been declared for a class (13.5.5), the subscript operator [] is interpreted in such a way that E1[E2] is identical to *((E1)+(E2)). Because of the conversion rules that apply to +, if E1 is an array and E2 an integer, then E1[E2] refers to the E2-th member of E1. Therefore, despite its asymmetric appearance, subscripting is a commutative operation. A consistent rule is followed for multidimensional arrays. If E is an n-dimensional array of rank i×j ×. . .×k, then E appearing in an expression that is subject to the array-to-pointer conversion (4.2) is converted to a pointer to an (n − 1)-dimensional array with rank j × . . . × k. If the * operator, either explicitly or implicitly as a result of subscripting, is applied to this pointer, the result is the pointed-to (n − 1)-dimensional array, which itself is immediately converted into a pointer. [ Example: consider int x[3][5];
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Here x is a 3 × 5 array of integers. When x appears in an expression, it is converted to a pointer to (the first of three) five-membered arrays of integers. In the expression x[i] which is equivalent to *(x+i), x is first converted to a pointer as described; then x+i is converted to the type of x, which involves multiplying i by the length of the object to which the pointer points, namely five integer objects. The results are added and indirection applied to yield an array (of five integers), which in turn is converted to a pointer to the first of the integers. If there is another subscript the same argument applies again; this time the result is an integer. — end example ] — end note ] [ Note: It follows from all this that arrays in C++ are stored row-wise (last subscript varies fastest) and that the first subscript in the declaration helps determine the amount of storage consumed by an array but plays no other part in subscript calculations. — end note ]
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Functions
[dcl.fct]
In a declaration T D where D has the form
D1 ( parameter-declaration-clause ) cv-qualifier-seqopt ref-qualifieropt exception-specificationopt attribute-specifier-seqopt
and the type of the contained declarator-id in the declaration T D1 is “derived-declarator-type-list T”, the type of the declarator-id in D is “derived-declarator-type-list function of (parameter-declaration-clause ) cvqualifier-seqopt ref-qualifieropt returning T”. The optional attribute-specifier-seq appertains to the function type. § 8.3.5
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In a declaration T D where D has the form
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and the type of the contained declarator-id in the declaration T D1 is “derived-declarator-type-list T”, T shall be the single type-specifier auto. The type of the declarator-id in D is “derived-declarator-type-list function of (parameter-declaration-clause) cv-qualifier-seq opt ref-qualifier opt returning trailing-return-type”. The optional attribute-specifier-seq appertains to the function type. A type of either form is a function type.98 parameter-declaration-clause: parameter-declaration-listopt ...opt parameter-declaration-list , ... parameter-declaration-list: parameter-declaration parameter-declaration-list , parameter-declaration parameter-declaration: attribute-specifier-seqopt decl-specifier-seq declarator attribute-specifier-seqopt decl-specifier-seq declarator = initializer-clause attribute-specifier-seqopt decl-specifier-seq abstract-declaratoropt attribute-specifier-seqopt decl-specifier-seq abstract-declaratoropt = initializer-clause
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The optional attribute-specifier-seq in a parameter-declaration appertains to the parameter. The parameter-declaration-clause determines the arguments that can be specified, and their processing, when the function is called. [ Note: the parameter-declaration-clause is used to convert the arguments specified on the function call; see 5.2.2. — end note ] If the parameter-declaration-clause is empty, the function takes no arguments. A parameter list consisting of a single unnamed parameter of non-dependent type void is equivalent to an empty parameter list. Except for this special case, a parameter shall not have type cv void. If the parameter-declaration-clause terminates with an ellipsis or a function parameter pack (14.5.3), the number of arguments shall be equal to or greater than the number of parameters that do not have a default argument and are not function parameter packs. Where syntactically correct and where “...” is not part of an abstract-declarator, “, ...” is synonymous with “...”. [ Example: the declaration int printf(const char*, ...);
declares a function that can be called with varying numbers and types of arguments. printf("hello world"); printf("a=%d b=%d", a, b);
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However, the first argument must be of a type that can be converted to a const char* — end example ] [ Note: The standard header contains a mechanism for accessing arguments passed using the ellipsis (see 5.2.2 and 18.10). — end note ] A single name can be used for several different functions in a single scope; this is function overloading (Clause 13). All declarations for a function shall agree exactly in both the return type and the parametertype-list. The type of a function is determined using the following rules. The type of each parameter (including function parameter packs) is determined from its own decl-specifier-seq and declarator. After determining the type of each parameter, any parameter of type “array of T” or “function returning T” is adjusted to be “pointer to T” or “pointer to function returning T,” respectively. After producing the list of parameter types, any top-level cv-qualifiers modifying a parameter type are deleted when forming the function type. The resulting list of transformed parameter types and the presence or absence of the ellipsis or a function parameter pack is the function’s parameter-type-list. [ Note: This transformation does not affect the types of the parameters. For example, int(*)(const int p, decltype(p)*) and int(*)(int, const int*) are identical types. — end note ] A cv-qualifier-seq or a ref-qualifier shall only be part of: — the function type for a non-static member function, 98) As indicated by syntax, cv-qualifiers are a significant component in function return types.
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— the function type to which a pointer to member refers, — the top-level function type of a function typedef declaration or alias-declaration, — the type-id in the default argument of a type-parameter (14.1), or — the type-id of a template-argument for a type-parameter (14.2). The effect of a cv-qualifier-seq in a function declarator is not the same as adding cv-qualification on top of the function type. In the latter case, the cv-qualifiers are ignored. [ Note: a function type that has a cv-qualifier-seq is not a cv-qualified type; there are no cv-qualified function types. — end note ] [ Example: typedef void F(); struct S { const F f; };
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// OK: equivalent to: void f();
— end example ] The return type, the parameter-type-list, the ref-qualifier, and the cv-qualifier-seq, but not the default arguments (8.3.6) or the exception specification (15.4), are part of the function type. [ Note: Function types are checked during the assignments and initializations of pointers to functions, references to functions, and pointers to member functions. — end note ] [ Example: the declaration int fseek(FILE*, long, int);
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declares a function taking three arguments of the specified types, and returning int (7.1.6). — end example ] If the type of a parameter includes a type of the form “pointer to array of unknown bound of T” or “reference to array of unknown bound of T,” the program is ill-formed.99 Functions shall not have a return type of type array or function, although they may have a return type of type pointer or reference to such things. There shall be no arrays of functions, although there can be arrays of pointers to functions. Types shall not be defined in return or parameter types. The type of a parameter or the return type for a function definition shall not be an incomplete class type (possibly cv-qualified) unless the function definition is nested within the member-specification for that class (including definitions in nested classes defined within the class). A typedef of function type may be used to declare a function but shall not be used to define a function (8.4). [ Example: typedef void F(); F fv; F fv { } void fv() { }
// OK: equivalent to void fv(); // ill-formed // OK: definition of fv
— end example ] A typedef of a function type whose declarator includes a cv-qualifier-seq shall be used only to declare the function type for a non-static member function, to declare the function type to which a pointer to member refers, or to declare the top-level function type of another function typedef declaration. [ Example: typedef int FIC(int) const; FIC f; // ill-formed: does not declare a member function struct S { FIC f; // OK }; FIC S::*pm = &S::f; // OK 99) This excludes parameters of type “ptr-arr-seq T2” where T2 is “pointer to array of unknown bound of T” and where ptrarr-seq means any sequence of “pointer to” and “array of” derived declarator types. This exclusion applies to the parameters
of the function, and if a parameter is a pointer to function or pointer to member function then to its parameters also, etc.
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declares an integer i, a pointer pi to an integer, a function f taking no arguments and returning an integer, a function fpi taking an integer argument and returning a pointer to an integer, a pointer pif to a function which takes two pointers to constant characters and returns an integer, a function fpif taking an integer argument and returning a pointer to a function that takes an integer argument and returns an integer. It is especially useful to compare fpi and pif. The binding of *fpi(int) is *(fpi(int)), so the declaration suggests, and the same construction in an expression requires, the calling of a function fpi, and then using indirection through the (pointer) result to yield an integer. In the declarator (*pif)(const char*, const char*), the extra parentheses are necessary to indicate that indirection through a pointer to a function yields a function, which is then called. — end example ] [ Note: Typedefs and trailing-return-types are sometimes convenient when the return type of a function is complex. For example, the function fpif above could have been declared typedef int IFUNC(int); IFUNC* fpif(int);
or auto fpif(int)->int(*)(int)
A trailing-return-type is most useful for a type that would be more complicated to specify before the declarator-id: template auto add(T t, U u) -> decltype(t + u);
rather than template decltype((*(T*)0) + (*(U*)0)) add(T t, U u); 13
— end note ] A declarator-id or abstract-declarator containing an ellipsis shall only be used in a parameter-declaration. Such a parameter-declaration is a parameter pack (14.5.3). When it is part of a parameter-declaration-clause, the parameter pack is a function parameter pack (14.5.3). [ Note: Otherwise, the parameter-declaration is part of a template-parameter-list and the parameter pack is a template parameter pack; see 14.1. — end note ] A function parameter pack is a pack expansion (14.5.3). [ Example: template void f(T (* ...t)(int, int)); int add(int, int); float subtract(int, int); void g() { f(add, subtract); }
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— end example ] There is a syntactic ambiguity when an ellipsis occurs at the end of a parameter-declaration-clause without a preceding comma. In this case, the ellipsis is parsed as part of the abstract-declarator if the type of the parameter names a template parameter pack that has not been expanded; otherwise, it is parsed as part of the parameter-declaration-clause.100
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If an initializer-clause is specified in a parameter-declaration this initializer-clause is used as a default argument. Default arguments will be used in calls where trailing arguments are missing. [ Example: the declaration void point(int = 3, int = 4);
declares a function that can be called with zero, one, or two arguments of type int. It can be called in any of these ways: point(1,2); 3
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The last two calls are equivalent to point(1,4) and point(3,4), respectively. — end example ] A default argument shall be specified only in the parameter-declaration-clause of a function declaration or in a template-parameter (14.1); in the latter case, the initializer-clause shall be an assignment-expression. A default argument shall not be specified for a parameter pack. If it is specified in a parameter-declarationclause, it shall not occur within a declarator or abstract-declarator of a parameter-declaration.101 For non-template functions, default arguments can be added in later declarations of a function in the same scope. Declarations in different scopes have completely distinct sets of default arguments. That is, declarations in inner scopes do not acquire default arguments from declarations in outer scopes, and vice versa. In a given function declaration, each parameter subsequent to a parameter with a default argument shall have a default argument supplied in this or a previous declaration or shall be a function parameter pack. A default argument shall not be redefined by a later declaration (not even to the same value). [ Example: void g(int = 0, ...); void f(int, int); void f(int, int = 7); void h() { f(3); void f(int = 1, int); } void m() { void f(int, int); f(4); void f(int, int = 5); f(4); void f(int, int = 5); } void n() { f(6); }
// OK, ellipsis is not a parameter so it can follow // a parameter with a default argument
// OK, calls f(3, 7) // error: does not use default // from surrounding scope
// // // // // //
has no defaults error: wrong number of arguments OK OK, calls f(4, 5); error: cannot redefine, even to same value
// OK, calls f(6, 7)
100) One can explicitly disambiguate the parse either by introducing a comma (so the ellipsis will be parsed as part of the parameter-declaration-clause) or by introducing a name for the parameter (so the ellipsis will be parsed as part of the declaratorid). 101) This means that default arguments cannot appear, for example, in declarations of pointers to functions, references to functions, or typedef declarations.
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— end example ] For a given inline function defined in different translation units, the accumulated sets of default arguments at the end of the translation units shall be the same; see 3.2. If a friend declaration specifies a default argument expression, that declaration shall be a definition and shall be the only declaration of the function or function template in the translation unit. The default argument has the same semantic constraints as the initializer in a declaration of a variable of the parameter type, using the copy-initialization semantics (8.5). The names in the default argument are bound, and the semantic constraints are checked, at the point where the default argument appears. Name lookup and checking of semantic constraints for default arguments in function templates and in member functions of class templates are performed as described in 14.7.1. [ Example: in the following code, g will be called with the value f(2): int a = 1; int f(int); int g(int x = f(a)); void h() { a = 2; { int a = 3; g(); } }
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— end example ] [ Note: In member function declarations, names in default arguments are looked up as described in 3.4.1. Access checking applies to names in default arguments as described in Clause 11. — end note ] Except for member functions of class templates, the default arguments in a member function definition that appears outside of the class definition are added to the set of default arguments provided by the member function declaration in the class definition. Default arguments for a member function of a class template shall be specified on the initial declaration of the member function within the class template. [ Example: class C { void f(int i = 3); void g(int i, int j = 99); }; void C::f(int i = 3) { } void C::g(int i = 88, int j) { }
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— end example ] Local variables shall not be used in a default argument. [ Example: void f() { int i; extern void g(int x = i); // ... }
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— end example ] The keyword this shall not be used in a default argument of a member function. [ Example: class A { void f(A* p = this) { } };
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— end example ] Default arguments are evaluated each time the function is called. The order of evaluation of function arguments is unspecified. Consequently, parameters of a function shall not be used in a default argument, even if they are not evaluated. Parameters of a function declared before a default argument are in scope and can hide namespace and class member names. [ Example: int a; int f(int a, int b = a);
// error: parameter a // used as default argument
typedef int I; int g(float I, int b = I(2)); int h(int a, int b = sizeof(a));
// error: parameter I found // error, parameter a used // in default argument
— end example ] Similarly, a non-static member shall not be used in a default argument, even if it is not evaluated, unless it appears as the id-expression of a class member access expression (5.2.5) or unless it is used to form a pointer to member (5.3.1). [ Example: the declaration of X::mem1() in the following example is ill-formed because no object is supplied for the non-static member X::a used as an initializer. int b; class X { int a; int mem1(int i = a); int mem2(int i = b); static int b; };
// error: non-static member a // used as default argument // OK; use X::b
The declaration of X::mem2() is meaningful, however, since no object is needed to access the static member X::b. Classes, objects, and members are described in Clause 9. — end example ] A default argument is not part of the type of a function. [ Example: int f(int = 0); void h() { int j = f(1); int k = f(); } int (*p1)(int) = &f; int (*p2)() = &f;
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// error: type mismatch
— end example ] When a declaration of a function is introduced by way of a using-declaration (7.3.3), any default argument information associated with the declaration is made known as well. If the function is redeclared thereafter in the namespace with additional default arguments, the additional arguments are also known at any point following the redeclaration where the using-declaration is in scope. A virtual function call (10.3) uses the default arguments in the declaration of the virtual function determined by the static type of the pointer or reference denoting the object. An overriding function in a derived class does not acquire default arguments from the function it overrides. [ Example: struct A { virtual void f(int a = 7); }; struct B : public A { void f(int a); }; void m() {
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}
— end example ]
8.4
Function definitions
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In general
[dcl.fct.def] [dcl.fct.def.general]
Function definitions have the form function-definition: attribute-specifier-seqopt decl-specifier-seqopt declarator virt-specifier-seqopt function-body function-body: ctor-initializeropt compound-statement function-try-block = default ; = delete ;
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as described in 8.3.5. A function shall be defined only in namespace or class scope. [ Example: a simple example of a complete function definition is int max(int a, int b, int c) { int m = (a > b) ? a : b; return (m > c) ? m : c; }
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Here int is the decl-specifier-seq; max(int a, int b, int c) is the declarator; { /* ... */ } is the function-body. — end example ] A ctor-initializer is used only in a constructor; see 12.1 and 12.6. A cv-qualifier-seq or a ref-qualifier (or both) can be part of a non-static member function declaration, non-static member function definition, or pointer to member function only (8.3.5); see 9.3.2. [ Note: Unused parameters need not be named. For example, void print(int a, int) { std::printf("a = %d\n",a); }
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— end note ] In the function-body, a function-local predefined variable denotes a block-scope object of static storage duration that is implicitly defined (see 3.3.3). The function-local predefined variable __func__ is defined as if a definition of the form static const char __func__[] = "function-name ";
had been provided, where function-name is an implementation-defined string. It is unspecified whether such a variable has an address distinct from that of any other object in the program.102 [ Example: 102) Implementations are permitted to provide additional predefined variables with names that are reserved to the implementation (17.6.4.3.2). If a predefined variable is not odr-used (3.2), its string value need not be present in the program image.
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Explicitly-defaulted functions
[dcl.fct.def.default]
A function definition of the form: attribute-specifier-seqopt decl-specifier-seqopt declarator virt-specifier-seqopt = default ;
is called an explicitly-defaulted definition. A function that is explicitly defaulted shall — be a special member function, — have the same declared function type (except for possibly differing ref-qualifiers and except that in the case of a copy constructor or copy assignment operator, the parameter type may be “reference to non-const T”, where T is the name of the member function’s class) as if it had been implicitly declared, and — not have default arguments. 2
An explicitly-defaulted function may be declared constexpr only if it would have been implicitly declared as constexpr, and may have an explicit exception-specification only if it is compatible (15.4) with the exceptionspecification on the implicit declaration. If a function is explicitly defaulted on its first declaration, — it is implicitly considered to be constexpr if the implicit declaration would be, and, — it is implicitly considered to have the same exception-specification as if it had been implicitly declared (15.4).
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[ Example: struct S { constexpr S() = default; S(int a = 0) = default; void operator=(const S&) = default; ~S() throw(int) = default; private: int i; S(S&); }; S::S(S&) = default;
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ill-formed: ill-formed: ill-formed: ill-formed:
implicit S() is not constexpr default argument non-matching return type exception specification does not match
// OK: private copy constructor // OK: defines copy constructor
— end example ] Explicitly-defaulted functions and implicitly-declared functions are collectively called defaulted functions, and the implementation shall provide implicit definitions for them (12.1 12.4, 12.8), which might mean defining them as deleted. A function is user-provided if it is user-declared and not explicitly defaulted or deleted on its first declaration. A user-provided explicitly-defaulted function (i.e., explicitly defaulted after its first declaration) is defined at the point where it is explicitly defaulted; if such a function is implicitly defined as deleted, the program is ill-formed. [ Note: Declaring a function as defaulted after its first declaration can provide efficient execution and concise definition while enabling a stable binary interface to an evolving code base. — end note ] [ Example:
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struct trivial { trivial() = default; trivial(const trivial&) = default; trivial(trivial&&) = default; trivial& operator=(const trivial&) = default; trivial& operator=(trivial&&) = default; ~trivial() = default; }; struct nontrivial1 { nontrivial1(); }; nontrivial1::nontrivial1() = default;
// not first declaration
— end example ]
8.4.3 1
Deleted definitions
[dcl.fct.def.delete]
A function definition of the form: attribute-specifier-seqopt decl-specifier-seqopt declarator virt-specifier-seqopt = delete ;
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is called a deleted definition. A function with a deleted definition is also called a deleted function. A program that refers to a deleted function implicitly or explicitly, other than to declare it, is ill-formed. [ Note: This includes calling the function implicitly or explicitly and forming a pointer or pointer-to-member to the function. It applies even for references in expressions that are not potentially-evaluated. If a function is overloaded, it is referenced only if the function is selected by overload resolution. — end note ] [ Example: One can enforce non-default initialization and non-integral initialization with struct onlydouble { onlydouble() = delete; // OK, but redundant onlydouble(std::intmax_t) = delete; onlydouble(double); };
— end example ] [ Example: One can prevent use of a class in certain new expressions by using deleted definitions of a user-declared operator new for that class. struct sometype { void *operator new(std::size_t) = delete; void *operator new[](std::size_t) = delete; }; sometype *p = new sometype; // error, deleted class operator new sometype *q = new sometype[3]; // error, deleted class operator new[]
— end example ] [ Example: One can make a class uncopyable, i.e. move-only, by using deleted definitions of the copy constructor and copy assignment operator, and then providing defaulted definitions of the move constructor and move assignment operator. struct moveonly { moveonly() = default; moveonly(const moveonly&) = delete; moveonly(moveonly&&) = default; moveonly& operator=(const moveonly&) = delete; moveonly& operator=(moveonly&&) = default; ~moveonly() = default; };
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— end example ] A deleted function is implicitly inline. [ Note: The one-definition rule (3.2) applies to deleted definitions. — end note ] A deleted definition of a function shall be the first declaration of the function or, for an explicit specialization of a function template, the first declaration of that specialization. [ Example: struct sometype { sometype(); }; sometype::sometype() = delete;
// ill-formed; not first declaration
— end example ]
8.5 1
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initializer: brace-or-equal-initializer ( expression-list ) brace-or-equal-initializer: = initializer-clause braced-init-list initializer-clause: assignment-expression braced-init-list initializer-list: initializer-clause ...opt initializer-list , initializer-clause ...opt braced-init-list: { initializer-list ,opt } {}
Except for objects declared with the constexpr specifier, for which see 7.1.5, an initializer in the definition of a variable can consist of arbitrary expressions involving literals and previously declared variables and functions, regardless of the variable’s storage duration. [ Example: int int int int
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A declarator can specify an initial value for the identifier being declared. The identifier designates a variable being initialized. The process of initialization described in the remainder of 8.5 applies also to initializations specified by other syntactic contexts, such as the initialization of function parameters with argument expressions (5.2.2) or the initialization of return values (6.6.3).
f(int); a = 2; b = f(a); c(b);
— end example ] [ Note: Default arguments are more restricted; see 8.3.6. The order of initialization of variables with static storage duration is described in 3.6 and 6.7. — end note ] To zero-initialize an object or reference of type T means: — if T is a scalar type (3.9), the object is set to the value 0 (zero), taken as an integral constant expression, converted to T;103 — if T is a (possibly cv-qualified) non-union class type, each non-static data member and each base-class subobject is zero-initialized and padding is initialized to zero bits; 103) As specified in 4.10, converting an integral constant expression whose value is 0 to a pointer type results in a null pointer value.
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— if T is a (possibly cv-qualified) union type, the object’s first non-static named data member is zeroinitialized and padding is initialized to zero bits; — if T is an array type, each element is zero-initialized; — if T is a reference type, no initialization is performed. 6
To default-initialize an object of type T means: — if T is a (possibly cv-qualified) class type (Clause 9), the default constructor for T is called (and the initialization is ill-formed if T has no accessible default constructor); — if T is an array type, each element is default-initialized; — otherwise, no initialization is performed.
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If a program calls for the default initialization of an object of a const-qualified type T, T shall be a class type with a user-provided default constructor. To value-initialize an object of type T means: — if T is a (possibly cv-qualified) class type (Clause 9) with either no default constructor (12.1) or a default constructor that is user-provided or deleted, then the object is default-initialized; — if T is a (possibly cv-qualified) non-union class type without a user-provided or deleted default constructor, then the object is zero-initialized and, if T has a non-trivial default constructor, default-initialized; — if T is an array type, then each element is value-initialized; — otherwise, the object is zero-initialized.
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An object that is value-initialized is deemed to be constructed and thus subject to provisions of this International Standard applying to “constructed” objects, objects “for which the constructor has completed,” etc., even if no constructor is invoked for the object’s initialization. A program that calls for default-initialization or value-initialization of an entity of reference type is ill-formed. [ Note: Every object of static storage duration is zero-initialized at program startup before any other initialization takes place. In some cases, additional initialization is done later. — end note ] An object whose initializer is an empty set of parentheses, i.e., (), shall be value-initialized. [ Note: Since () is not permitted by the syntax for initializer, X a();
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is not the declaration of an object of class X, but the declaration of a function taking no argument and returning an X. The form () is permitted in certain other initialization contexts (5.3.4, 5.2.3, 12.6.2). — end note ] If no initializer is specified for an object, the object is default-initialized; if no initialization is performed, an object with automatic or dynamic storage duration has indeterminate value. [ Note: Objects with static or thread storage duration are zero-initialized, see 3.6.2. — end note ] An initializer for a static member is in the scope of the member’s class. [ Example: int a; struct X { static int a; static int b; }; int X::a = 1; int X::b = a;
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— end example ] The form of initialization (using parentheses or =) is generally insignificant, but does matter when the initializer or the entity being initialized has a class type; see below. If the entity being initialized does not have class type, the expression-list in a parenthesized initializer shall be a single expression. The initialization that occurs in the form T x = a;
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as well as in argument passing, function return, throwing an exception (15.1), handling an exception (15.3), and aggregate member initialization (8.5.1) is called copy-initialization. [ Note: Copy-initialization may invoke a move (12.8). — end note ] The initialization that occurs in the forms T x(a); T x{a};
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as well as in new expressions (5.3.4), static_cast expressions (5.2.9), functional notation type conversions (5.2.3), and base and member initializers (12.6.2) is called direct-initialization. The semantics of initializers are as follows. The destination type is the type of the object or reference being initialized and the source type is the type of the initializer expression. If the initializer is not a single (possibly parenthesized) expression, the source type is not defined. — If the initializer is a (non-parenthesized) braced-init-list, the object or reference is list-initialized (8.5.4). — If the destination type is a reference type, see 8.5.3. — If the destination type is an array of characters, an array of char16_t, an array of char32_t, or an array of wchar_t, and the initializer is a string literal, see 8.5.2. — If the initializer is (), the object is value-initialized. — Otherwise, if the destination type is an array, the program is ill-formed. — If the destination type is a (possibly cv-qualified) class type: — If the initialization is direct-initialization, or if it is copy-initialization where the cv-unqualified version of the source type is the same class as, or a derived class of, the class of the destination, constructors are considered. The applicable constructors are enumerated (13.3.1.3), and the best one is chosen through overload resolution (13.3). The constructor so selected is called to initialize the object, with the initializer expression or expression-list as its argument(s). If no constructor applies, or the overload resolution is ambiguous, the initialization is ill-formed. — Otherwise (i.e., for the remaining copy-initialization cases), user-defined conversion sequences that can convert from the source type to the destination type or (when a conversion function is used) to a derived class thereof are enumerated as described in 13.3.1.4, and the best one is chosen through overload resolution (13.3). If the conversion cannot be done or is ambiguous, the initialization is ill-formed. The function selected is called with the initializer expression as its argument; if the function is a constructor, the call initializes a temporary of the cv-unqualified version of the destination type. The temporary is a prvalue. The result of the call (which is the temporary for the constructor case) is then used to direct-initialize, according to the rules above, the object that is the destination of the copy-initialization. In certain cases, an implementation is permitted to eliminate the copying inherent in this direct-initialization by constructing the intermediate result directly into the object being initialized; see 12.2, 12.8.
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— Otherwise, if the source type is a (possibly cv-qualified) class type, conversion functions are considered. The applicable conversion functions are enumerated (13.3.1.5), and the best one is chosen through overload resolution (13.3). The user-defined conversion so selected is called to convert the initializer expression into the object being initialized. If the conversion cannot be done or is ambiguous, the initialization is ill-formed. — Otherwise, the initial value of the object being initialized is the (possibly converted) value of the initializer expression. Standard conversions (Clause 4) will be used, if necessary, to convert the initializer expression to the cv-unqualified version of the destination type; no user-defined conversions are considered. If the conversion cannot be done, the initialization is ill-formed. [ Note: An expression of type “cv1 T” can initialize an object of type “cv2 T” independently of the cv-qualifiers cv1 and cv2. int a; const int b = a; int c = b;
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An initializer-clause followed by an ellipsis is a pack expansion (14.5.3).
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An aggregate is an array or a class (Clause 9) with no user-provided constructors (12.1), no brace-or-equalinitializers for non-static data members (9.2), no private or protected non-static data members (Clause 11), no base classes (Clause 10), and no virtual functions (10.3). When an aggregate is initialized by an initializer list, as specified in 8.5.4, the elements of the initializer list are taken as initializers for the members of the aggregate, in increasing subscript or member order. Each member is copy-initialized from the corresponding initializer-clause. If the initializer-clause is an expression and a narrowing conversion (8.5.4) is required to convert the expression, the program is ill-formed. [ Note: If an initializer-clause is itself an initializer list, the member is list-initialized, which will result in a recursive application of the rules in this section if the member is an aggregate. — end note ] [ Example: struct A { int x; struct B { int i; int j; } b; } a = { 1, { 2, 3 } };
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initializes a.x with 1, a.b.i with 2, a.b.j with 3. — end example ] An aggregate that is a class can also be initialized with a single expression not enclosed in braces, as described in 8.5. An array of unknown size initialized with a brace-enclosed initializer-list containing n initializer-clauses, where n shall be greater than zero, is defined as having n elements (8.3.4). [ Example: int x[] = { 1, 3, 5 };
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struct A { int i; static int s; int j; int :17; int k; } a = { 1, 2, 3 };
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Here, the second initializer 2 initializes a.j and not the static data member A::s, and the third initializer 3 initializes a.k and not the anonymous bit-field before it. — end example ] An initializer-list is ill-formed if the number of initializer-clauses exceeds the number of members or elements to initialize. [ Example: char cv[4] = { ’a’, ’s’, ’d’, ’f’, 0 };
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is ill-formed. — end example ] If there are fewer initializer-clauses in the list than there are members in the aggregate, then each member not explicitly initialized shall be initialized from an empty initializer list (8.5.4). [ Example: struct S { int a; const char* b; int c; }; S ss = { 1, "asdf" };
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initializes x[0][0] to 3, x[0][1] to 1, x[1][0] to 4, and x[1][1] to 2. On the other hand, float y[4][3] = { { 1 }, { 2 }, { 3 }, { 4 } };
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braces can be elided in an initializer-list as follows.105 If the initializer-list begins with a left brace, then the succeeding comma-separated list of initializer-clauses initializes the members of a subaggregate; it is erroneous for there to be more initializer-clauses than members. If, however, the initializer-list for a subaggregate does not begin with a left brace, then only enough initializer-clauses from the list are taken to initialize the members of the subaggregate; any remaining initializer-clauses are left to initialize the next member of the aggregate of which the current subaggregate is a member. [ Example: float y[4][3] = { { 1, 3, 5 }, { 2, 4, 6 }, { 3, 5, 7 }, };
is a completely-braced initialization: 1, 3, and 5 initialize the first row of the array y[0], namely y[0][0], y[0][1], and y[0][2]. Likewise the next two lines initialize y[1] and y[2]. The initializer ends early and therefore y[3]s elements are initialized as if explicitly initialized with an expression of the form float(), that is, are initialized with 0.0. In the following example, braces in the initializer-list are elided; however the initializer-list has the same effect as the completely-braced initializer-list of the above example, float y[4][3] = { 1, 3, 5, 2, 4, 6, 3, 5, 7 };
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The initializer for y begins with a left brace, but the one for y[0] does not, therefore three elements from the list are used. Likewise the next three are taken successively for y[1] and y[2]. — end example ] All implicit type conversions (Clause 4) are considered when initializing the aggregate member with an assignment-expression. If the assignment-expression can initialize a member, the member is initialized. Otherwise, if the member is itself a subaggregate, brace elision is assumed and the assignment-expression is considered for the initialization of the first member of the subaggregate. [ Note: As specified above, brace elision cannot apply to subaggregates with no members for purposes of aggregate initialization; an initializer-clause for the entire subobject is required. — end note ] [ Example: struct A { int i; operator int(); }; struct B { A a1, a2; int z; }; A a; B b = { 4, a, a };
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Braces are elided around the initializer-clause for b.a1.i. b.a1.i is initialized with 4, b.a2 is initialized with a, b.z is initialized with whatever a.operator int() returns. — end example ] [ Note: An aggregate array or an aggregate class may contain members of a class type with a user-provided constructor (12.1). Initialization of these aggregate objects is described in 12.6.1. — end note ] [ Note: Whether the initialization of aggregates with static storage duration is static or dynamic is specified in 3.6.2 and 6.7. — end note ] When a union is initialized with a brace-enclosed initializer, the braces shall only contain an initializer-clause for the first non-static data member of the union. [ Example: 105) Braces cannot be elided in other uses of list-initialization.
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u { int a; const char* b; }; { 1 }; a; 1; // error { 0, "asdf" }; // error { "asdf" }; // error
— end example ] [ Note: As described above, the braces around the initializer-clause for a union member can be omitted if the union is a member of another aggregate. — end note ]
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A char array (whether plain char, signed char, or unsigned char), char16_t array, char32_t array, or wchar_t array can be initialized by a narrow character literal, char16_t string literal, char32_t string literal, or wide string literal, respectively, or by an appropriately-typed string literal enclosed in braces. Successive characters of the value of the string literal initialize the elements of the array. [ Example: char msg[] = "Syntax error on line %s\n";
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A variable declared to be a T& or T&&, that is, “reference to type T” (8.3.2), shall be initialized by an object, or function, of type T or by an object that can be converted into a T. [ Example: int g(int); void f() { int i; int& r = i; r = 1; int* p = &r; int& rr = r; int (&rg)(int) = g; rg(i); int a[3]; int (&ra)[3] = a; ra[1] = i; }
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// ra refers to the array a // modifies a[1]
— end example ] A reference cannot be changed to refer to another object after initialization. Note that initialization of a reference is treated very differently from assignment to it. Argument passing (5.2.2) and function value return (6.6.3) are initializations. The initializer can be omitted for a reference only in a parameter declaration (8.3.5), in the declaration of a function return type, in the declaration of a class member within its class definition (9.2), and where the extern specifier is explicitly used. [ Example: int& r1; extern int& r2;
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— end example ] Given types “cv1 T1” and “cv2 T2,” “cv1 T1” is reference-related to “cv2 T2” if T1 is the same type as T2, or T1 is a base class of T2. “cv1 T1” is reference-compatible with “cv2 T2” if T1 is reference-related to T2 and cv1 is the same cv-qualification as, or greater cv-qualification than, cv2. For purposes of overload resolution, cases for which cv1 is greater cv-qualification than cv2 are identified as reference-compatible with added qualification (see 13.3.3.2). In all cases where the reference-related or reference-compatible relationship of two types is used to establish the validity of a reference binding, and T1 is a base class of T2, a program that necessitates such a binding is ill-formed if T1 is an inaccessible (Clause 11) or ambiguous (10.2) base class of T2. A reference to type “cv1 T1” is initialized by an expression of type “cv2 T2” as follows: — If the reference is an lvalue reference and the initializer expression — is an lvalue (but is not a bit-field), and “cv1 T1” is reference-compatible with “cv2 T2,” or — has a class type (i.e., T2 is a class type), where T1 is not reference-related to T2, and can be implicitly converted to an lvalue of type “cv3 T3,” where “cv1 T1” is reference-compatible with “cv3 T3”106 (this conversion is selected by enumerating the applicable conversion functions (13.3.1.6) and choosing the best one through overload resolution (13.3)), then the reference is bound to the initializer expression lvalue in the first case and to the lvalue result of the conversion in the second case (or, in either case, to the appropriate base class subobject of the object). [ Note: The usual lvalue-to-rvalue (4.1), array-to-pointer (4.2), and function-to-pointer (4.3) standard conversions are not needed, and therefore are suppressed, when such direct bindings to lvalues are done. — end note ] [ Example: double d = 2.0; double& rd = d; const double& rcd = d;
// rd refers to d // rcd refers to d
struct A { }; struct B : A { operator int&(); } b; A& ra = b; // ra refers to A subobject in b const A& rca = b; // rca refers to A subobject in b int& ir = B(); // ir refers to the result of B::operator int&
— end example ] — Otherwise, the reference shall be an lvalue reference to a non-volatile const type (i.e., cv1 shall be const), or the reference shall be an rvalue reference. [ Example: double& rd2 = 2.0; int i = 2; double& rd3 = i;
// error: not an lvalue and reference not const // error: type mismatch and reference not const
— end example ] — If the initializer expression — is an xvalue (but not a bit-field), class prvalue, array prvalue or function lvalue and “cv1 T1” is reference-compatible with “cv2 T2”, or — has a class type (i.e., T2 is a class type), where T1 is not reference-related to T2, and can be implicitly converted to an xvalue, class prvalue, or function lvalue of type “cv3 T3”, where “cv1 T1” is reference-compatible with “cv3 T3”, 106) This requires a conversion function (12.3.2) returning a reference type.
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// bound to the A subobject of the B rvalue. // same as above
// bound to the A subobject of the result of the conversion // // // //
bound directly to i2 bound directly to the result of operator B error: lvalue-to-rvalue conversion applied to the result of operator int&
— end example ] — Otherwise, a temporary of type “cv1 T1” is created and initialized from the initializer expression using the rules for a non-reference copy-initialization (8.5). The reference is then bound to the temporary. If T1 is reference-related to T2, cv1 shall be the same cv-qualification as, or greater cv-qualification than, cv2. If T1 is reference-related to T2 and the reference is an rvalue reference, the initializer expression shall not be an lvalue. [ Example: const double& rcd2 = 2; double&& rrd = 2; const volatile int cvi = 1; const int& r2 = cvi; double d2 = 1.0; double&& rrd2 = d2; int i3 = 2; double&& rrd3 = i3;
// rcd2 refers to temporary with value 2.0 // rrd refers to temporary with value 2.0 // error: type qualifiers dropped // error: copying lvalue of related type // rrd3 refers to temporary with value 2.0
— end example ]
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List-initialization is initialization of an object or reference from a braced-init-list. Such an initializer is called an initializer list, and the comma-separated initializer-clauses of the list are called the elements of the initializer list. An initializer list may be empty. List-initialization can occur in direct-initialization or copyinitialization contexts; list-initialization in a direct-initialization context is called direct-list-initialization and list-initialization in a copy-initialization context is called copy-list-initialization. [ Note: List-initialization can be used — as the initializer in a variable definition (8.5) — as the initializer in a new expression (5.3.4) § 8.5.4
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— in a return statement (6.6.3) — as a function argument (5.2.2) — as a subscript (5.2.1) — as an argument to a constructor invocation (8.5, 5.2.3) — as an initializer for a non-static data member (9.2) — in a mem-initializer (12.6.2) — on the right-hand side of an assignment (5.17) [ Example: int a = {1}; std::complex z{1,2}; new std::vector{"once", "upon", "a", "time"}; // 4 string elements f( {"Nicholas","Annemarie"} ); // pass list of two elements return { "Norah" }; // return list of one element int* e {}; // initialization to zero / null pointer x = double{1}; // explicitly construct a double std::map anim = { {"bear",4}, {"cassowary",2}, {"tiger",7} }; 2
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— end example ] — end note ] A constructor is an initializer-list constructor if its first parameter is of type std::initializer_list or reference to possibly cv-qualified std::initializer_list for some type E, and either there are no other parameters or else all other parameters have default arguments (8.3.6). [ Note: Initializer-list constructors are favored over other constructors in list-initialization (13.3.1.7). — end note ] The template std::initializer_list is not predefined; if the header is not included prior to a use of std::initializer_list — even an implicit use in which the type is not named (7.1.6.4) — the program is ill-formed. List-initialization of an object or reference of type T is defined as follows: — If T is an aggregate, aggregate initialization is performed (8.5.1). [ Example: double ad[] = { 1, 2.0 }; int ai[] = { 1, 2.0 };
// OK // error: narrowing
struct S2 { int m1; double m2, m3; }; S2 s21 = { 1, 2, 3.0 }; S2 s22 { 1.0, 2, 3 }; S2 s23 { };
// OK // error: narrowing // OK: default to 0,0,0
— end example ] — Otherwise, if the initializer list has no elements and T is a class type with a default constructor, the object is value-initialized. — Otherwise, if T is a specialization of std::initializer_list, an initializer_list object is constructed as described below and used to initialize the object according to the rules for initialization of an object from a class of the same type (8.5). § 8.5.4
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— Otherwise, if T is a class type, constructors are considered. The applicable constructors are enumerated and the best one is chosen through overload resolution (13.3, 13.3.1.7). If a narrowing conversion (see below) is required to convert any of the arguments, the program is ill-formed. [ Example: struct S { S(std::initializer_list); S(std::initializer_list); S(); // ... }; S s1 = { 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 }; S s2 = { 1, 2, 3 }; S s3 = { };
// #1 // #2 // #3
// invoke #1 // invoke #2 // invoke #3
— end example ] [ Example: struct Map { Map(std::initializer_list); }; Map ship = {{"Sophie",14}, {"Surprise",28}};
— end example ] [ Example: struct S { // no initializer-list constructors S(int, double, double); S(); // ... }; S s1 = { 1, 2, 3.0 }; S s2 { 1.0, 2, 3 }; S s3 { };
// #1 // #2
// OK: invoke #1 // error: narrowing // OK: invoke #2
— end example ] — Otherwise, if the initializer list has a single element of type E and either T is not a reference type or its referenced type is reference-related to E, the object or reference is initialized from that element; if a narrowing conversion (see below) is required to convert the element to T, the program is ill-formed. [ Example: int x1 {2}; int x2 {2.0};
// OK // error: narrowing
— end example ] — Otherwise, if T is a reference type, a prvalue temporary of the type referenced by T is list-initialized, and the reference is bound to that temporary. [ Note: As usual, the binding will fail and the program is ill-formed if the reference type is an lvalue reference to a non-const type. — end note ] [ Example:
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— end example ] — Otherwise, if the initializer list has no elements, the object is value-initialized. [ Example: int** pp {};
// initialized to null pointer
— end example ] — Otherwise, the program is ill-formed. [ Example: struct A { int i; int j; }; A a1 { 1, 2 }; A a2 { 1.2 }; struct B { B(std::initializer_list); }; B b1 { 1, 2 }; B b2 { 1, 2.0 }; struct C { C(int i, double j); }; C c1 = { 1, 2.2 }; C c2 = { 1.1, 2 }; int j { 1 }; int k { };
// aggregate initialization // error: narrowing
// creates initializer_list and calls constructor // error: narrowing
// calls constructor with arguments (1, 2.2) // error: narrowing // initialize to 1 // initialize to 0
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Within the initializer-list of a braced-init-list, the initializer-clauses, including any that result from pack expansions (14.5.3), are evaluated in the order in which they appear. That is, every value computation and side effect associated with a given initializer-clause is sequenced before every value computation and side effect associated with any initializer-clause that follows it in the comma-separated list of the initializer-list. [ Note: This evaluation ordering holds regardless of the semantics of the initialization; for example, it applies when the elements of the initializer-list are interpreted as arguments of a constructor call, even though ordinarily there are no sequencing constraints on the arguments of a call. — end note ] An object of type std::initializer_list is constructed from an initializer list as if the implementation allocated an array of N elements of type E, where N is the number of elements in the initializer list. Each element of that array is copy-initialized with the corresponding element of the initializer list, and the std::initializer_list object is constructed to refer to that array. If a narrowing conversion is required to initialize any of the elements, the program is ill-formed.[ Example: § 8.5.4
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The initialization will be implemented in a way roughly equivalent to this: double __a[3] = {double{1}, double{2}, double{3}}; X x(std::initializer_list(__a, __a+3));
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assuming that the implementation can construct an initializer_list object with a pair of pointers. — end example ] The lifetime of the array is the same as that of the initializer_list object. [ Example: typedef std::complex cmplx; std::vector v1 = { 1, 2, 3 }; void f() { std::vector v2{ 1, 2, 3 }; std::initializer_list i3 = { 1, 2, 3 }; }
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For v1 and v2, the initializer_list object and array created for { 1, 2, 3 } have full-expression lifetime. For i3, the initializer_list object and array have automatic lifetime. — end example ] [ Note: The implementation is free to allocate the array in read-only memory if an explicit array with the same initializer could be so allocated. — end note ] A narrowing conversion is an implicit conversion — from a floating-point type to an integer type, or — from long double to double or float, or from double to float, except where the source is a constant expression and the actual value after conversion is within the range of values that can be represented (even if it cannot be represented exactly), or — from an integer type or unscoped enumeration type to a floating-point type, except where the source is a constant expression and the actual value after conversion will fit into the target type and will produce the original value when converted back to the original type, or — from an integer type or unscoped enumeration type to an integer type that cannot represent all the values of the original type, except where the source is a constant expression and the actual value after conversion will fit into the target type and will produce the original value when converted back to the original type. [ Note: As indicated above, such conversions are not allowed at the top level in list-initializations. — end note ] [ Example: int x = 999; const int y = 999; const int z = 99; char c1 = x; char c2{x}; char c3{y}; char c4{z}; unsigned char uc1 = {5}; unsigned char uc2 = {-1}; unsigned int ui1 = {-1}; signed int si1 =
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// // // // // // //
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Class-specifiers and elaborated-type-specifiers (7.1.6.3) are used to make class-names. An object of a class consists of a (possibly empty) sequence of members and base class objects. class-specifier: class-head { member-specificationopt } class-head: class-key attribute-specifier-seqopt class-head-name class-virt-specifieropt base-clauseopt class-key attribute-specifier-seqopt base-clauseopt class-head-name: nested-name-specifieropt class-name class-virt-specifier: final class-key: class struct union
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A trivial class is a class that has a trivial default constructor (12.1) and is trivially copyable. [ Note: In particular, a trivially copyable or trivial class does not have virtual functions or virtual base classes. — end note ] A standard-layout class is a class that: — has no non-static data members of type non-standard-layout class (or array of such types) or reference, — has no virtual functions (10.3) and no virtual base classes (10.1), — has the same access control (Clause 11) for all non-static data members, — has no non-standard-layout base classes, — either has no non-static data members in the most derived class and at most one base class with non-static data members, or has no base classes with non-static data members, and — has no base classes of the same type as the first non-static data member.108
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A standard-layout struct is a standard-layout class defined with the class-key struct or the class-key class. A standard-layout union is a standard-layout class defined with the class-key union. [ Note: Standard-layout classes are useful for communicating with code written in other programming languages. Their layout is specified in 9.2. — end note ] A POD struct 109 is a non-union class that is both a trivial class and a standard-layout class, and has no non-static data members of type non-POD struct, non-POD union (or array of such types). Similarly, a POD union is a union that is both a trivial class and a standard layout class, and has no non-static data members of type non-POD struct, non-POD union (or array of such types). A POD class is a class that is either a POD struct or a POD union. [ Example: struct N { int i; int j; virtual ~N(); };
// neither trivial nor standard-layout
struct T { int i; private: int j; };
// trivial but not standard-layout
struct SL { int i; int j; ~SL(); };
// standard-layout but not trivial
struct POD { int i; int j; };
// both trivial and standard-layout
108) This ensures that two subobjects that have the same class type and that belong to the same most derived object are not allocated at the same address (5.10). 109) The acronym POD stands for “plain old data”.
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— end example ] If a class-head-name contains a nested-name-specifier, the class-specifier shall refer to a class that was previously declared directly in the class or namespace to which the nested-name-specifier refers, or in an element of the inline namespace set (7.3.1) of that namespace (i.e., not merely inherited or introduced by a using-declaration), and the class-specifier shall appear in a namespace enclosing the previous declaration. In such cases, the nested-name-specifier of the class-head-name of the definition shall not begin with a decltype-specifier.
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declares three variables of three different types. This implies that a1 = a2; a1 = a3;
// error: Y assigned to X // error: int assigned to X
are type mismatches, and that int f(X); int f(Y);
declare an overloaded (Clause 13) function f() and not simply a single function f() twice. For the same reason, struct S { int a; }; struct S { int a; }; 2
// error, double definition
is ill-formed because it defines S twice. — end example ] A class declaration introduces the class name into the scope where it is declared and hides any class, variable, function, or other declaration of that name in an enclosing scope (3.3). If a class name is declared in a scope where a variable, function, or enumerator of the same name is also declared, then when both declarations are in scope, the class can be referred to only using an elaborated-type-specifier (3.4.4). [ Example: struct stat { // ... }; stat gstat;
// use plain stat to // define variable
int stat(struct stat*);
// redeclare stat as function
void f() { struct stat* ps; stat(ps);
// struct prefix needed // to name struct stat // call stat()
}
— end example ] A declaration consisting solely of class-key identifier; is either a redeclaration of the name in the current scope or a forward declaration of the identifier as a class name. It introduces the class name into the current scope. [ Example:
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// // // // //
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— end example ] [ Note: Such declarations allow definition of classes that refer to each other. [ Example: class Vector; class Matrix { // ... friend Vector operator*(const Matrix&, const Vector&); }; class Vector { // ... friend Vector operator*(const Matrix&, const Vector&); }; 3
Declaration of friends is described in 11.3, operator functions in 13.5. — end example ] — end note ] [ Note: An elaborated-type-specifier (7.1.6.3) can also be used as a type-specifier as part of a declaration. It differs from a class declaration in that if a class of the elaborated name is in scope the elaborated name will refer to it. — end note ] [ Example: struct s { int a; }; void g(int s) { struct s* p = new struct s; p->a = s; }
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member-specification: member-declaration member-specificationopt access-specifier : member-specificationopt
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member-declaration: attribute-specifier-seqopt decl-specifier-seqopt member-declarator-listopt ; function-definition ;opt using-declaration static_assert-declaration template-declaration alias-declaration member-declarator-list: member-declarator member-declarator-list , member-declarator member-declarator: declarator virt-specifier-seqopt pure-specifieropt declarator brace-or-equal-initializeropt identifieropt attribute-specifier-seqopt : constant-expression virt-specifier-seq: virt-specifier virt-specifier-seq virt-specifier virt-specifier: override final pure-specifier: = 0
The member-specification in a class definition declares the full set of members of the class; no member can be added elsewhere. Members of a class are data members, member functions (9.3), nested types, and enumerators. Data members and member functions are static or non-static; see 9.4. Nested types are classes (9.1, 9.7) and enumerations (7.2) defined in the class, and arbitrary types declared as members by use of a typedef declaration (7.1.3). The enumerators of an unscoped enumeration (7.2) defined in the class are members of the class. Except when used to declare friends (11.3) or to introduce the name of a member of a base class into a derived class (7.3.3), member-declarations declare members of the class, and each such member-declaration shall declare at least one member name of the class. A member shall not be declared twice in the member-specification, except that a nested class or member class template can be declared and then later defined, and except that an enumeration can be introduced with an opaque-enum-declaration and later redeclared with an enum-specifier. A class is considered a completely-defined object type (3.9) (or complete type) at the closing } of the classspecifier. Within the class member-specification, the class is regarded as complete within function bodies, default arguments, and brace-or-equal-initializers for non-static data members (including such things in nested classes). Otherwise it is regarded as incomplete within its own class member-specification. [ Note: A single name can denote several function members provided their types are sufficiently different (Clause 13). — end note ] A brace-or-equal-initializer shall appear only in the declaration of a data member. (For static data members, see 9.4.2; for non-static data members, see 12.6.2). A member shall not be declared with the extern or register storage-class-specifier. Within a class definition, a member shall not be declared with the thread_local storage-class-specifier unless also declared static. The decl-specifier-seq may be omitted in constructor, destructor, and conversion function declarations only; when declaring another kind of member the decl-specifier-seq shall contain a type-specifier that is not a cvqualifier. The member-declarator-list can be omitted only after a class-specifier or an enum-specifier or in a friend declaration (11.3). A pure-specifier shall be used only in the declaration of a virtual function (10.3). The optional attribute-specifier-seq in a member-declaration appertains to each of the entities declared by the member-declarators; it shall not appear if the optional member-declarator-list is omitted. A virt-specifier-seq shall contain at most one of each virt-specifier. A virt-specifier-seq shall appear only in the declaration of a virtual member function (10.3).
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Non-static (9.4) data members shall not have incomplete types. In particular, a class C shall not contain a non-static member of class C, but it can contain a pointer or reference to an object of class C. [ Note: See 5.1 for restrictions on the use of non-static data members and non-static member functions. — end note ] [ Note: The type of a non-static member function is an ordinary function type, and the type of a non-static data member is an ordinary object type. There are no special member function types or data member types. — end note ] [ Example: A simple example of a class definition is struct tnode { char tword[20]; int count; tnode *left; tnode *right; };
which contains an array of twenty characters, an integer, and two pointers to objects of the same type. Once this definition has been given, the declaration tnode s, *sp;
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A pointer to a standard-layout struct object, suitably converted using a reinterpret_cast, points to its initial member (or if that member is a bit-field, then to the unit in which it resides) and vice versa. [ Note: There might therefore be unnamed padding within a standard-layout struct object, but not at its beginning, as necessary to achieve appropriate alignment. — end note ]
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Functions declared in the definition of a class, excluding those declared with a friend specifier (11.3), are called member functions of that class. A member function may be declared static in which case it is a static member function of its class (9.4); otherwise it is a non-static member function of its class (9.3.1, 9.3.2). A member function may be defined (8.4) in its class definition, in which case it is an inline member function (7.1.2), or it may be defined outside of its class definition if it has already been declared but not defined in its class definition. A member function definition that appears outside of the class definition shall appear in a namespace scope enclosing the class definition. Except for member function definitions that appear outside of a class definition, and except for explicit specializations of member functions of class templates and member function templates (14.7) appearing outside of the class definition, a member function shall not be redeclared. An inline member function (whether static or non-static) may also be defined outside of its class definition provided either its declaration in the class definition or its definition outside of the class definition declares the function as inline. [ Note: Member functions of a class in namespace scope have external linkage. Member functions of a local class (9.8) have no linkage. See 3.5. — end note ] There shall be at most one definition of a non-inline member function in a program; no diagnostic is required. There may be more than one inline member function definition in a program. See 3.2 and 7.1.2. If the definition of a member function is lexically outside its class definition, the member function name shall be qualified by its class name using the :: operator. [ Note: A name used in a member function definition (that is, in the parameter-declaration-clause including the default arguments (8.3.6) or in the member function body) is looked up as described in 3.4. — end note ] [ Example: struct X { typedef int T; static T count; void f(T); }; void X::f(T t = count) { }
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fv S::* pmfv1 = &S::memfunc1; fv S::* pmfv2 = &S::memfunc2; fvc S::* pmfv3 = &S::memfunc3;
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A non-static member function may be called for an object of its class type, or for an object of a class derived (Clause 10) from its class type, using the class member access syntax (5.2.5, 13.3.1.1). A non-static member function may also be called directly using the function call syntax (5.2.2, 13.3.1.1) from within the body of a member function of its class or of a class derived from its class. If a non-static member function of a class X is called for an object that is not of type X, or of a type derived from X, the behavior is undefined. When an id-expression (5.1) that is not part of a class member access syntax (5.2.5) and not used to form a pointer to member (5.3.1) is used in a member of class X in a context where this can be used (5.1.1), if name lookup (3.4) resolves the name in the id-expression to a non-static non-type member of some class C, and if either the id-expression is potentially evaluated or C is X or a base class of X, the id-expression is transformed into a class member access expression (5.2.5) using (*this) (9.3.2) as the postfix-expression to the left of the . operator. [ Note: If C is not X or a base class of X, the class member access expression is ill-formed. — end note ] Similarly during name lookup, when an unqualified-id (5.1) used in the definition of a member function for class X resolves to a static member, an enumerator or a nested type of class X or of a base class of X, the unqualified-id is transformed into a qualified-id (5.1) in which the nested-name-specifier names the class of the member function. [ Example: struct tnode { char tword[20]; int count; tnode *left; tnode *right; void set(const char*, tnode* l, tnode* r); }; void tnode::set(const char* w, tnode* l, tnode* r) { count = strlen(w)+1; if (sizeof(tword)aa = 1; // OK
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specifies a bit-field; its length is set off from the bit-field name by a colon. The optional attributespecifier-seq appertains to the entity being declared. The bit-field attribute is not part of the type of the class member. The constant-expression shall be an integral constant expression with a value greater than or § 9.6
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equal to zero. The value of the integral constant expression may be larger than the number of bits in the object representation (3.9) of the bit-field’s type; in such cases the extra bits are used as padding bits and do not participate in the value representation (3.9) of the bit-field. Allocation of bit-fields within a class object is implementation-defined. Alignment of bit-fields is implementation-defined. Bit-fields are packed into some addressable allocation unit. [ Note: Bit-fields straddle allocation units on some machines and not on others. Bit-fields are assigned right-to-left on some machines, left-to-right on others. — end note ] A declaration for a bit-field that omits the identifier declares an unnamed bit-field. Unnamed bit-fields are not members and cannot be initialized. [ Note: An unnamed bit-field is useful for padding to conform to externally-imposed layouts. — end note ] As a special case, an unnamed bit-field with a width of zero specifies alignment of the next bit-field at an allocation unit boundary. Only when declaring an unnamed bit-field may the value of the constant-expression be equal to zero. A bit-field shall not be a static member. A bit-field shall have integral or enumeration type (3.9.1). It is implementation-defined whether a plain (neither explicitly signed nor unsigned) char, short, int, long, or long long bit-field is signed or unsigned. A bool value can successfully be stored in a bit-field of any nonzero size. The address-of operator & shall not be applied to a bit-field, so there are no pointers to bitfields. A non-const reference shall not be bound to a bit-field (8.5.3). [ Note: If the initializer for a reference of type const T& is an lvalue that refers to a bit-field, the reference is bound to a temporary initialized to hold the value of the bit-field; the reference is not bound to the bit-field directly. See 8.5.3. — end note ] If the value true or false is stored into a bit-field of type bool of any size (including a one bit bit-field), the original bool value and the value of the bit-field shall compare equal. If the value of an enumerator is stored into a bit-field of the same enumeration type and the number of bits in the bit-field is large enough to hold all the values of that enumeration type (7.2), the original enumerator value and the value of the bit-field shall compare equal. [ Example: enum BOOL { FALSE=0, TRUE=1 }; struct A { BOOL b:1; }; A a; void f() { a.b = TRUE; if (a.b == TRUE) { /∗ ... ∗/ } }
// yields true
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Nested class declarations
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A class can be declared within another class. A class declared within another is called a nested class. The name of a nested class is local to its enclosing class. The nested class is in the scope of its enclosing class. [ Note: See 5.1 for restrictions on the use of non-static data members and non-static member functions. — end note ] [ Example: int x; int y; struct enclose { int x; static int s; struct inner { void f(int i) { int a = sizeof(x); x = i;
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{ { x; i);
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— end example ] Like a member function, a friend function (11.3) defined within a nested class is in the lexical scope of that class; it obeys the same rules for name binding as a static member function of that class (9.4), but it has no special access rights to members of an enclosing class.
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Local class declarations
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A class can be declared within a function definition; such a class is called a local class. The name of a local class is local to its enclosing scope. The local class is in the scope of the enclosing scope, and has the same access to names outside the function as does the enclosing function. Declarations in a local class shall not odr-use (3.2) a variable with automatic storage duration from an enclosing scope. [ Example: int x; void f() { static int s ; int x; const int N = 5; extern int q(); struct local {
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Type names obey exactly the same scope rules as other names. In particular, type names defined within a class definition cannot be used outside their class without qualification. [ Example: struct X { typedef int I; class Y { /∗ ... ∗/ }; I a; }; I b; Y c; X::Y d; X::I e;
// // // //
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A list of base classes can be specified in a class definition using the notation: base-clause: : base-specifier-list base-specifier-list: base-specifier ...opt base-specifier-list , base-specifier ...opt base-specifier: attribute-specifier-seqopt base-type-specifier attribute-specifier-seqopt virtual access-specifieropt base-type-specifier attribute-specifier-seqopt access-specifier virtualopt base-type-specifier class-or-decltype: nested-name-specifieropt class-name decltype-specifier base-type-specifier: class-or-decltype access-specifier: private protected public
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Here, an object of class Derived2 will have a subobject of class Derived which in turn will have a subobject of class Base. — end example ] A base-specifier followed by an ellipsis is a pack expansion (14.5.3). The order in which the base class subobjects are allocated in the most derived object (1.8) is unspecified. [ Note: a derived class and its base class subobjects can be represented by a directed acyclic graph (DAG) where an arrow means “directly derived from.” A DAG of subobjects is often referred to as a “subobject lattice.”
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— end example ] [ Note: The order of derivation is not significant except as specified by the semantics of initialization by constructor (12.6.2), cleanup (12.4), and storage layout (9.2, 11.1). — end note ] A class shall not be specified as a direct base class of a derived class more than once. [ Note: A class can be an indirect base class more than once and can be a direct and an indirect base class. There are limited things that can be done with such a class. The non-static data members and member functions of the direct base class cannot be referred to in the scope of the derived class. However, the static members, enumerations and types can be unambiguously referred to. — end note ] [ Example: class X { /∗ ... ∗/ }; class Y : public X, public X { /∗ ... ∗/ };
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— end example ] A base class specifier that does not contain the keyword virtual, specifies a non-virtual base class. A base class specifier that contains the keyword virtual, specifies a virtual base class. For each distinct occurrence of a non-virtual base class in the class lattice of the most derived class, the most derived object (1.8) shall contain a corresponding distinct base class subobject of that type. For each distinct base class that is specified virtual, the most derived object shall contain a single base class subobject of that type. [ Example: for an object of class type C, each distinct occurrence of a (non-virtual) base class L in the class lattice of C corresponds one-to-one with a distinct L subobject within the object of type C. Given the class C defined above, an object of class C will have two subobjects of class L as shown below.
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B { /∗ ... ∗/ }; X : virtual public B { /∗ ... ∗/ }; Y : virtual public B { /∗ ... ∗/ }; Z : public B { /∗ ... ∗/ }; AA : public X, public Y, public Z { /∗ ... ∗/ };
For an object of class AA, all virtual occurrences of base class B in the class lattice of AA correspond to a single B subobject within the object of type AA, and every other occurrence of a (non-virtual) base class B in the class lattice of AA corresponds one-to-one with a distinct B subobject within the object of type AA. § 10.1
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Member name lookup determines the meaning of a name (id-expression) in a class scope (3.3.7). Name lookup can result in an ambiguity, in which case the program is ill-formed. For an id-expression, name lookup begins in the class scope of this; for a qualified-id, name lookup begins in the scope of the nestedname-specifier. Name lookup takes place before access control (3.4, Clause 11). The following steps define the result of name lookup for a member name f in a class scope C. The lookup set for f in C, called S(f, C), consists of two component sets: the declaration set, a set of members named f; and the subobject set, a set of subobjects where declarations of these members (possibly including using-declarations) were found. In the declaration set, using-declarations are replaced by the members they designate, and type declarations (including injected-class-names) are replaced by the types they designate. S(f, C) is calculated as follows: If C contains a declaration of the name f, the declaration set contains every declaration of f declared in C that satisfies the requirements of the language construct in which the lookup occurs. [ Note: Looking up a name in an elaborated-type-specifier (3.4.4) or base-specifier (Clause 10), for instance, ignores all nontype declarations, while looking up a name in a nested-name-specifier (3.4.3) ignores function, variable, and enumerator declarations. As another example, looking up a name in a using-declaration (7.3.3) includes the declaration of a class or enumeration that would ordinarily be hidden by another declaration of that name in the same scope. — end note ] If the resulting declaration set is not empty, the subobject set contains C itself, and calculation is complete. Otherwise (i.e., C does not contain a declaration of f or the resulting declaration set is empty), S(f, C) is initially empty. If C has base classes, calculate the lookup set for f in each direct base class subobject Bi , and merge each such lookup set S(f, Bi ) in turn into S(f, C). The following steps define the result of merging lookup set S(f, Bi ) into the intermediate S(f, C):
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— If each of the subobject members of S(f, Bi ) is a base class subobject of at least one of the subobject members of S(f, C), or if S(f, Bi ) is empty, S(f, C) is unchanged and the merge is complete. Conversely, if each of the subobject members of S(f, C) is a base class subobject of at least one of the subobject members of S(f, Bi ), or if S(f, C) is empty, the new S(f, C) is a copy of S(f, Bi ). — Otherwise, if the declaration sets of S(f, Bi ) and S(f, C) differ, the merge is ambiguous: the new S(f, C) is a lookup set with an invalid declaration set and the union of the subobject sets. In subsequent merges, an invalid declaration set is considered different from any other. — Otherwise, the new S(f, C) is a lookup set with the shared set of declarations and the union of the subobject sets. 7
The result of name lookup for f in C is the declaration set of S(f, C). If it is an invalid set, the program is ill-formed. [ Example: struct A { int x; }; struct B { float x; }; struct C: public A, public struct D: public virtual C struct E: public virtual C struct F: public D, public int main() { F f; f.x = 0; }
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{ A}} { B}} A in C, B in C } } { E}}
// OK, lookup finds E::x
S(x, F ) is unambiguous because the A and B base subobjects of D are also base subobjects of E, so S(x, D) is discarded in the first merge step. — end example ] If the name of an overloaded function is unambiguously found, overloading resolution (13.3) also takes place before access control. Ambiguities can often be resolved by qualifying a name with its class name. [ Example: struct A { int f(); }; struct B { int f(); }; struct C : A, B { int f() { return A::f() + B::f(); } };
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— end example ] [ Note: A static member, a nested type or an enumerator defined in a base class T can unambiguously be found even if an object has more than one base class subobject of type T. Two base class subobjects share the non-static member subobjects of their common virtual base classes. — end note ] [ Example: struct V int v; }; struct A int a; static enum {
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// // // //
OK: only one v (virtual) OK: only one s (static) OK: only one e (enumerator) error, ambiguous: two as in D
— end example ] [ Note: When virtual base classes are used, a hidden declaration can be reached along a path through the subobject lattice that does not pass through the hiding declaration. This is not an ambiguity. The identical use with non-virtual base classes is an ambiguity; in that case there is no unique instance of the name that hides all the others. — end note ] [ Example: struct V { struct W { struct B : int f(); int g(); }; struct C :
int f(); int x; }; int g(); int y; }; virtual V, W { int x; int y; virtual V, W { };
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[ Note: The names declared in V and the left-hand instance of W are hidden by those in B, but the names declared in the right-hand instance of W are not hidden at all. — end note ] void D::glorp() { x++; f(); y++; g(); }
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OK: B::x hides V::x OK: B::f() hides V::f() error: B::y and C’s W::y error: B::g() and C’s W::g()
— end example ] An explicit or implicit conversion from a pointer to or an expression designating an object of a derived class to a pointer or reference to one of its base classes shall unambiguously refer to a unique object representing the base class. [ Example: struct V { };
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// error, ambiguous: C’s A or B’s A? // OK: only one V subobject
— end example ] [ Note: Even if the result of name lookup is unambiguous, use of a name found in multiple subobjects might still be ambiguous (4.11, 5.2.5, 11.2). — end note ] [ Example: struct B1 { void f(); static void f(int); int i; }; struct B2 { void f(double); }; struct I1: B1 { }; struct I2: B1 { }; struct D: I1, I2, B2 { using B1::f; using B2::f; void g() { f(); f(0); f(0.0); int B1::* mpB1 = &D::i; int D::* mpD = &D::i; } };
// // // // //
Ambiguous conversion of this Unambiguous (static) Unambiguous (only one B2) Unambiguous Ambiguous conversion
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[class.virtual]
Virtual functions support dynamic binding and object-oriented programming. A class that declares or inherits a virtual function is called a polymorphic class. If a virtual member function vf is declared in a class Base and in a class Derived, derived directly or indirectly from Base, a member function vf with the same name, parameter-type-list (8.3.5), cv-qualification, and refqualifier (or absence of same) as Base::vf is declared, then Derived::vf is also virtual (whether or not it is so declared) and it overrides 111 Base::vf. For convenience we say that any virtual function overrides itself. A virtual member function C::vf of a class object S is a final overrider unless the most derived class (1.8) of which S is a base class subobject (if any) declares or inherits another member function that overrides vf. In a derived class, if a virtual member function of a base class subobject has more than one final overrider the program is ill-formed. [ Example: 111) A function with the same name but a different parameter list (Clause 13) as a virtual function is not necessarily virtual and does not override. The use of the virtual specifier in the declaration of an overriding function is legal but redundant (has empty semantics). Access control (Clause 11) is not considered in determining overriding.
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struct A { virtual void f(); }; struct B : virtual A { virtual void f(); }; struct C : B , virtual A { using A::f; }; void foo() { C c; c.f(); c.C::f(); }
// calls B::f, the final overrider // calls A::f because of the using-declaration
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// error: wrong signature overriding B::f // OK
— end example ] Even though destructors are not inherited, a destructor in a derived class overrides a base class destructor declared virtual; see 12.4 and 12.5. The return type of an overriding function shall be either identical to the return type of the overridden function or covariant with the classes of the functions. If a function D::f overrides a function B::f, the return types of the functions are covariant if they satisfy the following criteria: — both are pointers to classes, both are lvalue references to classes, or both are rvalue references to classes112 — the class in the return type of B::f is the same class as the class in the return type of D::f, or is an unambiguous and accessible direct or indirect base class of the class in the return type of D::f — both pointers or references have the same cv-qualification and the class type in the return type of D::f has the same cv-qualification as or less cv-qualification than the class type in the return type of B::f.
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— end example ] [ Note: The interpretation of the call of a virtual function depends on the type of the object for which it is called (the dynamic type), whereas the interpretation of a call of a non-virtual member function depends only on the type of the pointer or reference denoting that object (the static type) (5.2.2). — end note ] [ Note: The virtual specifier implies membership, so a virtual function cannot be a nonmember (7.1.2) function. Nor can a virtual function be a static member, since a virtual function call relies on a specific object for determining which function to invoke. A virtual function declared in one class can be declared a friend in another class. — end note ] A virtual function declared in a class shall be defined, or declared pure (10.4) in that class, or both; but no diagnostic is required (3.2). [ Example: here are some uses of virtual functions with multiple base classes: struct A { virtual void f(); }; struct B1 : A { void f(); };
// note non-virtual derivation
struct B2 : A { void f(); }; struct D : B1, B2 { };
// D has two separate A subobjects
void foo() { D d; // A* ap = &d; // would be ill-formed: ambiguous B1* b1p = &d; A* ap = b1p; D* dp = &d; ap->f(); // calls D::B1::f dp->f(); // ill-formed: ambiguous }
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struct A { virtual void f(); }; struct VB1 : virtual A { void f(); };
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struct VB2 : virtual A { void f(); }; struct Error : VB1, VB2 { };
// ill-formed
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// does not declare f
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// calls VB2::f
— end example ] Explicit qualification with the scope operator (5.1) suppresses the virtual call mechanism. [ Example: class B { public: virtual void f(); }; class D : public B { public: void f(); }; void D::f() { /∗ ... ∗/ B::f(); }
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The abstract class mechanism supports the notion of a general concept, such as a shape, of which only more concrete variants, such as circle and square, can actually be used. An abstract class can also be used to define an interface for which derived classes provide a variety of implementations. An abstract class is a class that can be used only as a base class of some other class; no objects of an abstract class can be created except as subobjects of a class derived from it. A class is abstract if it has at least one pure virtual function. [ Note: Such a function might be inherited: see below. — end note ] A virtual function is specified pure by using a pure-specifier (9.2) in the function declaration in the class definition. A
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pure virtual function need be defined only if called with, or as if with (12.4), the qualified-id syntax (5.1). [ Example: class point { /∗ ... ∗/ }; class shape { // abstract class point center; public: point where() { return center; } void move(point p) { center=p; draw(); } virtual void rotate(int) = 0; // pure virtual virtual void draw() = 0; // pure virtual };
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— end example ] An abstract class shall not be used as a parameter type, as a function return type, or as the type of an explicit conversion. Pointers and references to an abstract class can be declared. [ Example: shape x; shape* p; shape f(); void g(shape); shape& h(shape&);
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// ill-formed
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— end example ] A class is abstract if it contains or inherits at least one pure virtual function for which the final overrider is pure virtual. [ Example: class ab_circle : public shape { int radius; public: void rotate(int) { } // ab_circle::draw() is a pure virtual };
Since shape::draw() is a pure virtual function ab_circle::draw() is a pure virtual by default. The alternative declaration, class circle : public shape { int radius; public: void rotate(int) { } void draw(); };
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Member access control
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A member of a class can be — private; that is, its name can be used only by members and friends of the class in which it is declared. — protected; that is, its name can be used only by members and friends of the class in which it is declared, by classes derived from that class, and by their friends (see 11.4). — public; that is, its name can be used anywhere without access restriction.
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A member of a class can also access all the names to which the class has access. A local class of a member function may access the same names that the member function itself may access.113 Members of a class defined with the keyword class are private by default. Members of a class defined with the keywords struct or union are public by default. [ Example: class X { int a; };
// X::a is private by default
struct S { int a; };
// S::a is public by default
— end example ] Access control is applied uniformly to all names, whether the names are referred to from declarations or expressions. [ Note: Access control applies to names nominated by friend declarations (11.3) and usingdeclarations (7.3.3). — end note ] In the case of overloaded function names, access control is applied to the function selected by overload resolution. [ Note: Because access control applies to names, if access control is applied to a typedef name, only the accessibility of the typedef name itself is considered. The accessibility of the entity referred to by the typedef is not considered. For example, class A { class B { }; public: typedef B BB; }; void f() { A::BB x; A::B y; }
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— end note ] It should be noted that it is access to members and base classes that is controlled, not their visibility. Names of members are still visible, and implicit conversions to base classes are still considered, when those members and base classes are inaccessible. The interpretation of a given construct is established without regard to access control. If the interpretation established makes use of inaccessible member names or base classes, the construct is ill-formed. All access controls in Clause 11 affect the ability to access a class member name from the declaration of a particular entity, including parts of the declaration preceding the name of the entity being declared and, if the 113) Access permissions are thus transitive and cumulative to nested and local classes.
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entity is a class, the definitions of members of the class appearing outside the class’s member-specification. [ Note: this access also applies to implicit references to constructors, conversion functions, and destructors. — end note ] [ Example: class A { typedef int I; // private member I f(); friend I g(I); static I x; template struct Q; template friend struct R; protected: struct B { }; }; A::I A::f() { return 0; } A::I g(A::I p = A::x); A::I g(A::I p) { return 0; } A::I A::x = 0; template struct A::Q { }; template struct R { }; struct D: A::B, A { }; 7
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Here, all the uses of A::I are well-formed because A::f, A::x, and A::Q are members of class A and g and R are friends of class A. This implies, for example, that access checking on the first use of A::I must be deferred until it is determined that this use of A::I is as the return type of a member of class A. Similarly, the use of A::B as a base-specifier is well-formed because D is derived from A, so checking of base-specifiers must be deferred until the entire base-specifier-list has been seen. — end example ] The names in a default argument (8.3.6) are bound at the point of declaration, and access is checked at that point rather than at any points of use of the default argument. Access checking for default arguments in function templates and in member functions of class templates is performed as described in 14.7.1. The names in a default template-argument (14.1) have their access checked in the context in which they appear rather than at any points of use of the default template-argument. [ Example: class B { }; template class C { protected: typedef T TT; }; template class D : public U { }; D * d;
// access error, C::TT is protected
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Access specifiers
[class.access.spec]
Member declarations can be labeled by an access-specifier (Clause 10): access-specifier : member-specificationopt
An access-specifier specifies the access rules for members following it until the end of the class or until another access-specifier is encountered. [ Example: class X { int a;
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— end example ] Any number of access specifiers is allowed and no particular order is required. [ Example: struct S { int a; protected: int b; private: int c; public: int d; };
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// S::a is public by default: struct used // S::b is protected // S::c is private // S::d is public
— end example ] [ Note: The effect of access control on the order of allocation of data members is described in 9.2. — end note ] When a member is redeclared within its class definition, the access specified at its redeclaration shall be the same as at its initial declaration. [ Example: struct S { class A; enum E : int; private: class A { }; // error: cannot change access enum E: int { e0 }; // error: cannot change access };
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— end example ] [ Note: In a derived class, the lookup of a base class name will find the injected-class-name instead of the name of the base class in the scope in which it was declared. The injected-class-name might be less accessible than the name of the base class in the scope in which it was declared. — end note ] [ Example: class A { }; class B : private A { }; class C : public B { A *p; // error: injected-class-name A is inaccessible ::A *q; // OK };
— end example ]
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Accessibility of base classes and base class members
[class.access.base]
If a class is declared to be a base class (Clause 10) for another class using the public access specifier, the public members of the base class are accessible as public members of the derived class and protected members of the base class are accessible as protected members of the derived class. If a class is declared to be a base class for another class using the protected access specifier, the public and protected members of the base class are accessible as protected members of the derived class. If a class is declared to be a base class for another class using the private access specifier, the public and protected members of the base class are accessible as private members of the derived class114 . 114) As specified previously in Clause 11, private members of a base class remain inaccessible even to derived classes unless friend declarations within the base class definition are used to grant access explicitly.
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In the absence of an access-specifier for a base class, public is assumed when the derived class is defined with the class-key struct and private is assumed when the class is defined with the class-key class. [ Example: class B { /∗ ... ∗/ }; class D1 : private B { /∗ ... ∗/ }; class D2 : public B { /∗ ... ∗/ }; class D3 : B { /∗ ... ∗/ }; // B private by default struct D4 : public B { /∗ ... ∗/ }; struct D5 : private B { /∗ ... ∗/ }; struct D6 : B { /∗ ... ∗/ }; // B public by default class D7 : protected B { /∗ ... ∗/ }; struct D8 : protected B { /∗ ... ∗/ };
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Here B is a public base of D2, D4, and D6, a private base of D1, D3, and D5, and a protected base of D7 and D8. — end example ] [ Note: A member of a private base class might be inaccessible as an inherited member name, but accessible directly. Because of the rules on pointer conversions (4.10) and explicit casts (5.4), a conversion from a pointer to a derived class to a pointer to an inaccessible base class might be ill-formed if an implicit conversion is used, but well-formed if an explicit cast is used. For example, class B { public: int mi; static int si; }; class D : private B { }; class DD : public D { void f(); }; void DD::f() { mi = 3; si = 3; ::B b; b.mi = 3; b.si = 3; ::B::si = 3; ::B* bp1 = this; ::B* bp2 = (::B*)this; bp2->mi = 3; }
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// non-static member // static member
// error: mi is private in D // error: si is private in D // // // // // //
OK ( b.mi is different from this->mi) OK ( b.si is different from this->si) OK error: B is a private base class OK with cast OK: access through a pointer to B.
— end note ] A base class B of N is accessible at R, if — an invented public member of B would be a public member of N, or — R occurs in a member or friend of class N, and an invented public member of B would be a private or protected member of N, or — R occurs in a member or friend of a class P derived from N, and an invented public member of B would be a private or protected member of P, or — there exists a class S such that B is a base class of S accessible at R and S is a base class of N accessible at R. [ Example: § 11.2
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OK because class S satisfies the fourth condition above: B is a base class of N accessible in f() because B is an accessible base class of S and S is an accessible base class of N.
— end example ] If a base class is accessible, one can implicitly convert a pointer to a derived class to a pointer to that base class (4.10, 4.11). [ Note: It follows that members and friends of a class X can implicitly convert an X* to a pointer to a private or protected immediate base class of X. — end note ] The access to a member is affected by the class in which the member is named. This naming class is the class in which the member name was looked up and found. [ Note: This class can be explicit, e.g., when a qualified-id is used, or implicit, e.g., when a class member access operator (5.2.5) is used (including cases where an implicit “this->” is added). If both a class member access operator and a qualified-id are used to name the member (as in p->T::m), the class naming the member is the class denoted by the nested-name-specifier of the qualified-id (that is, T). — end note ] A member m is accessible at the point R when named in class N if — m as a member of N is public, or — m as a member of N is private, and R occurs in a member or friend of class N, or — m as a member of N is protected, and R occurs in a member or friend of class N, or in a member or friend of a class P derived from N, where m as a member of P is public, private, or protected, or — there exists a base class B of N that is accessible at R, and m is accessible at R when named in class B. [ Example: class B; class A { private: int i; friend void f(B*); }; class B : public A { }; void f(B* p) { p->i = 1; // OK: B* can be implicitly converted to A*, // and f has access to i in A }
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If a class member access operator, including an implicit “this->,” is used to access a non-static data member or non-static member function, the reference is ill-formed if the left operand (considered as a pointer in the “.” operator case) cannot be implicitly converted to a pointer to the naming class of the right operand. § 11.2
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[ Note: This requirement is in addition to the requirement that the member be accessible as named. — end note ]
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Friends
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A friend of a class is a function or class that is given permission to use the private and protected member names from the class. A class specifies its friends, if any, by way of friend declarations. Such declarations give special access rights to the friends, but they do not make the nominated friends members of the befriending class. [ Example: the following example illustrates the differences between members and friends: class X { int a; friend void friend_set(X*, int); public: void member_set(int); }; void friend_set(X* p, int i) { p->a = i; } void X::member_set(int i) { a = i; } void f() { X obj; friend_set(&obj,10); obj.member_set(10); }
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— end example ] Declaring a class to be a friend implies that the names of private and protected members from the class granting friendship can be accessed in the base-specifiers and member declarations of the befriended class. [ Example: class A { class B { }; friend class X; }; struct X : A::B { A::B mx; class Y { A::B my; }; };
// OK: A::B accessible to friend // OK: A::B accessible to member of friend // OK: A::B accessible to nested member of friend
— end example ] [ Example: class X { enum { a=100 }; friend class Y; }; class Y { int v[X::a]; };
// OK, Y is a friend of X
class Z { int v[X::a]; };
// error: X::a is private
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— end example ] A class shall not be defined in a friend declaration. [ Example: class A { friend class B { }; // error: cannot define class in friend declaration }; 3
— end example ] A friend declaration that does not declare a function shall have one of the following forms: friend elaborated-type-specifier ; friend simple-type-specifier ; friend typename-specifier ;
[ Note: A friend declaration may be the declaration in a template-declaration (Clause 14, 14.5.4). — end note ] If the type specifier in a friend declaration designates a (possibly cv-qualified) class type, that class is declared as a friend; otherwise, the friend declaration is ignored. [ Example: class C; typedef C Ct; class X1 { friend C; };
// OK: class C is a friend
class X2 friend friend friend };
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{ Ct; D; class D;
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— end example ] A function first declared in a friend declaration has external linkage (3.5). Otherwise, the function retains its previous linkage (7.1.1). When a friend declaration refers to an overloaded name or operator, only the function specified by the parameter types becomes a friend. A member function of a class X can be a friend of a class Y. [ Example: class Y { friend char* X::foo(int); friend X::X(char); friend X::~X(); };
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— end example ] A function can be defined in a friend declaration of a class if and only if the class is a non-local class (9.8), the function name is unqualified, and the function has namespace scope. [ Example: class M { friend void f() { }
// definition of global f, a friend of M, // not the definition of a member function
};
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Such a function is implicitly inline. A friend function defined in a class is in the (lexical) scope of the class in which it is defined. A friend function defined outside the class is not (3.4.1). No storage-class-specifier shall appear in the decl-specifier-seq of a friend declaration. A name nominated by a friend declaration shall be accessible in the scope of the class containing the friend declaration. The meaning of the friend declaration is the same whether the friend declaration appears in the private, protected or public (9.2) portion of the class member-specification. Friendship is neither inherited nor transitive. [ Example: class A { friend class B; int a; }; class B { friend class C; }; class C { void f(A* p) { p->a++;
// error: C is not a friend of A // despite being a friend of a friend
} }; class D : public B void f(A* p) { p->a++;
{ // error: D is not a friend of A // despite being derived from a friend
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— end example ] If a friend declaration appears in a local class (9.8) and the name specified is an unqualified name, a prior declaration is looked up without considering scopes that are outside the innermost enclosing non-class scope. For a friend function declaration, if there is no prior declaration, the program is ill-formed. For a friend class declaration, if there is no prior declaration, the class that is specified belongs to the innermost enclosing non-class scope, but if it is subsequently referenced, its name is not found by name lookup until a matching declaration is provided in the innermost enclosing nonclass scope. [ Example: class X; void a(); void f() { class Y; extern void b(); class A { friend class X; friend class Y; friend class Z; friend void a(); friend void b(); friend void c(); }; X *px; Z *pz; }
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11.4 1
Protected member access
[class.protected]
An additional access check beyond those described earlier in Clause 11 is applied when a non-static data member or non-static member function is a protected member of its naming class (11.2)115 As described earlier, access to a protected member is granted because the reference occurs in a friend or member of some class C. If the access is to form a pointer to member (5.3.1), the nested-name-specifier shall denote C or a class derived from C. All other accesses involve a (possibly implicit) object expression (5.2.5). In this case, the class of the object expression shall be C or a class derived from C. [ Example: class B { protected: int i; static int j; }; class D1 : public B { }; class D2 : public B { friend void fr(B*,D1*,D2*); void mem(B*,D1*); }; void fr(B* pb, D1* p1, D2* p2) { pb->i = 1; // p1->i = 2; // p2->i = 3; // p2->B::i = 4; // // int B::* pmi_B = &B::i; // int B::* pmi_B2 = &D2::i; // B::j = 5; // D2::j = 6; // }
ill-formed ill-formed OK (access through a D2) OK (access through a D2, even though naming class is B) ill-formed OK (type of &D2::i is int B::*) OK (because refers to static member) OK (because refers to static member)
void D2::mem(B* pb, D1* p1) { pb->i = 1; p1->i = 2; i = 3; B::i = 4; int B::* pmi_B = &B::i; int B::* pmi_B2 = &D2::i; j = 5; B::j = 6; }
ill-formed ill-formed OK (access through this) OK (access through this, qualification ignored) ill-formed OK OK (because j refers to static member) OK (because B::j refers to static member)
void g(B* pb->i = p1->i = p2->i = }
// // // // // // // //
pb, D1* p1, D2* p2) { 1; // ill-formed 2; // ill-formed 3; // ill-formed
115) This additional check does not apply to other members, e.g., static data members or enumerator member constants.
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Access to virtual functions
[class.access.virt]
The access rules (Clause 11) for a virtual function are determined by its declaration and are not affected by the rules for a function that later overrides it. [ Example: class B { public: virtual int f(); }; class D : public B { private: int f(); }; void f() { D d; B* pb = &d; D* pd = &d; pb->f(); pd->f();
// OK: B::f() is public, // D::f() is invoked // error: D::f() is private
} 2
— end example ] Access is checked at the call point using the type of the expression used to denote the object for which the member function is called (B* in the example above). The access of the member function in the class in which it was defined (D in the example above) is in general not known.
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Multiple access
[class.paths]
If a name can be reached by several paths through a multiple inheritance graph, the access is that of the path that gives most access. [ Example: class W { public: void f(); }; class A : private virtual W { }; class B : public virtual W { }; class C : public A, public B { void f() { W::f(); } // OK };
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Nested classes
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A nested class is a member and as such has the same access rights as any other member. The members of an enclosing class have no special access to members of a nested class; the usual access rules (Clause 11) shall be obeyed. [ Example: class E { int x; class B { }; class I { B b; int y; void f(E* p, int i) { p->x = i;
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} }; int g(I* p) { return p->y; } };
// error: I::y is private
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The default constructor (12.1), copy constructor and copy assignment operator (12.8), move constructor and move assignment operator (12.8), and destructor (12.4) are special member functions. [ Note: The implementation will implicitly declare these member functions for some class types when the program does not explicitly declare them. The implementation will implicitly define them if they are odr-used (3.2). See 12.1, 12.4 and 12.8. — end note ] Programs shall not define implicitly-declared special member functions. Programs may explicitly refer to implicitly-declared special member functions. [ Example: a program may explicitly call, take the address of or form a pointer to member to an implicitly-declared special member function. struct A { }; struct B : A { B& operator=(const B &); }; B& B::operator=(const B& s) { this->A::operator=(s); return *this; }
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— end example ] [ Note: The special member functions affect the way objects of class type are created, copied, moved, and destroyed, and how values can be converted to values of other types. Often such special member functions are called implicitly. — end note ] Special member functions obey the usual access rules (Clause 11). [ Example: declaring a constructor protected ensures that only derived classes and friends can create objects using it. — end example ]
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Constructors
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Constructors do not have names. A special declarator syntax is used to declare or define the constructor. The syntax uses: — an optional decl-specifier-seq in which each decl-specifier is either a function-specifier or constexpr, — the constructor’s class name, and — a parameter list in that order. In such a declaration, optional parentheses around the constructor class name are ignored. [ Example:
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// declares the constructor
S::S() { }
// defines the constructor
— end example ] A constructor is used to initialize objects of its class type. Because constructors do not have names, they are never found during name lookup; however an explicit type conversion using the functional notation (5.2.3) will cause a constructor to be called to initialize an object. [ Note: For initialization of objects of class type see 12.6. — end note ] A typedef-name shall not be used as the class-name in the declarator-id for a constructor declaration.
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A constructor shall not be virtual (10.3) or static (9.4). A constructor can be invoked for a const, volatile or const volatile object. A constructor shall not be declared const, volatile, or const volatile (9.3.2). const and volatile semantics (7.1.6.1) are not applied on an object under construction. They come into effect when the constructor for the most derived object (1.8) ends. A constructor shall not be declared with a ref-qualifier. A default constructor for a class X is a constructor of class X that can be called without an argument. If there is no user-declared constructor for class X, a constructor having no parameters is implicitly declared as defaulted (8.4). An implicitly-declared default constructor is an inline public member of its class. A defaulted default constructor for class X is defined as deleted if: — X is a union-like class that has a variant member with a non-trivial default constructor, — any non-static data member with no brace-or-equal-initializer is of reference type, — any non-variant non-static data member of const-qualified type (or array thereof) with no brace-orequal-initializer does not have a user-provided default constructor, — X is a union and all of its variant members are of const-qualified type (or array thereof), — X is a non-union class and all members of any anonymous union member are of const-qualified type (or array thereof), — any direct or virtual base class, or non-static data member with no brace-or-equal-initializer, has class type M (or array thereof) and either M has no default constructor or overload resolution (13.3) as applied to M’s default constructor results in an ambiguity or in a function that is deleted or inaccessible from the defaulted default constructor, or — any direct or virtual base class or non-static data member has a type with a destructor that is deleted or inaccessible from the defaulted default constructor. A default constructor is trivial if it is not user-provided and if: — its class has no virtual functions (10.3) and no virtual base classes (10.1), and — no non-static data member of its class has a brace-or-equal-initializer, and — all the direct base classes of its class have trivial default constructors, and — for all the non-static data members of its class that are of class type (or array thereof), each such class has a trivial default constructor.
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Otherwise, the default constructor is non-trivial. A default constructor that is defaulted and not defined as deleted is implicitly defined when it is odrused (3.2) to create an object of its class type (1.8) or when it is explicitly defaulted after its first declaration. The implicitly-defined default constructor performs the set of initializations of the class that would be performed by a user-written default constructor for that class with no ctor-initializer (12.6.2) and an empty compound-statement. If that user-written default constructor would be ill-formed, the program is ill-formed. If that user-written default constructor would satisfy the requirements of a constexpr constructor (7.1.5), the implicitly-defined default constructor is constexpr. Before the defaulted default constructor for a class is implicitly defined, all the non-user-provided default constructors for its base classes and its nonstatic data members shall have been implicitly defined. [ Note: An implicitly-declared default constructor has an exception-specification (15.4). An explicitly-defaulted definition might have an implicit exceptionspecification, see 8.4. — end note ] Default constructors are called implicitly to create class objects of static, thread, or automatic storage duration (3.7.1, 3.7.2, 3.7.3) defined without an initializer (8.5), are called to create class objects of dynamic § 12.1
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storage duration (3.7.4) created by a new-expression in which the new-initializer is omitted (5.3.4), or are called when the explicit type conversion syntax (5.2.3) is used. A program is ill-formed if the default constructor for an object is implicitly used and the constructor is not accessible (Clause 11). [ Note: 12.6.2 describes the order in which constructors for base classes and non-static data members are called and describes how arguments can be specified for the calls to these constructors. — end note ] No return type (not even void) shall be specified for a constructor. A return statement in the body of a constructor shall not specify a return value. The address of a constructor shall not be taken. A functional notation type conversion (5.2.3) can be used to create new objects of its type. [ Note: The syntax looks like an explicit call of the constructor. — end note ] [ Example: complex zz = complex(1,2.3); cprint( complex(7.8,1.2) );
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— end example ] An object created in this way is unnamed. [ Note: 12.2 describes the lifetime of temporary objects. — end note ] [ Note: Explicit constructor calls do not yield lvalues, see 3.10. — end note ] [ Note: some language constructs have special semantics when used during construction; see 12.6.2 and 12.7. — end note ] During the construction of a const object, if the value of the object or any of its subobjects is accessed through a glvalue that is not obtained, directly or indirectly, from the constructor’s this pointer, the value of the object or subobject thus obtained is unspecified. [ Example: struct C; void no_opt(C*); struct C { int c; C() : c(0) { no_opt(this); } }; const C cobj; void no_opt(C* cptr) { int i = cobj.c * 100; cptr->c = 1; cout ~B_alias(); B_ptr->B_alias::~B(); B_ptr->B_alias::~B_alias(); }
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// // // // //
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B’s D’s D’s B’s B’s
destructor destructor destructor destructor destructor
— end example ] [ Note: An explicit destructor call must always be written using a member access operator (5.2.5) or a qualified-id (5.1); in particular, the unary-expression ˜X() in a member function is not an explicit destructor call (5.3.1). — end note ] [ Note: explicit calls of destructors are rarely needed. One use of such calls is for objects placed at specific addresses using a new-expression with the placement option. Such use of explicit placement and destruction of objects can be necessary to cope with dedicated hardware resources and for writing memory management facilities. For example, void* operator new(std::size_t, void* p) { return p; } struct X { X(int); ~X(); }; void f(X* p); void g() { // rare, specialized use: char* buf = new char[sizeof(X)]; X* p = new(buf) X(222); // use buf[] and initialize f(p); p->X::~X(); // cleanup }
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— end note ] Once a destructor is invoked for an object, the object no longer exists; the behavior is undefined if the destructor is invoked for an object whose lifetime has ended (3.8). [ Example: if the destructor for an automatic object is explicitly invoked, and the block is subsequently left in a manner that would ordinarily invoke implicit destruction of the object, the behavior is undefined. — end example ] [ Note: the notation for explicit call of a destructor can be used for any scalar type name (5.2.4). Allowing this makes it possible to write code without having to know if a destructor exists for a given type. For example, § 12.4
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12.5 1 2
Free store
[class.free]
Any allocation function for a class T is a static member (even if not explicitly declared static). [ Example: class Arena; struct B { void* operator new(std::size_t, Arena*); }; struct D1 : B { }; Arena* ap; void foo(int i) { new (ap) D1; new D1[i]; new D1; }
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// calls B::operator new(std::size_t, Arena*) // calls ::operator new[](std::size_t) // ill-formed: ::operator new(std::size_t) hidden
— end example ] When an object is deleted with a delete-expression (5.3.5), a deallocation function (operator delete() for non-array objects or operator delete[]() for arrays) is (implicitly) called to reclaim the storage occupied by the object (3.7.4.2). If a delete-expression begins with a unary :: operator, the deallocation function’s name is looked up in global scope. Otherwise, if the delete-expression is used to deallocate a class object whose static type has a virtual destructor, the deallocation function is the one selected at the point of definition of the dynamic type’s virtual destructor (12.4).117 Otherwise, if the delete-expression is used to deallocate an object of class T or array thereof, the static and dynamic types of the object shall be identical and the deallocation function’s name is looked up in the scope of T. If this lookup fails to find the name, the name is looked up in the global scope. If the result of the lookup is ambiguous or inaccessible, or if the lookup selects a placement deallocation function, the program is ill-formed. When a delete-expression is executed, the selected deallocation function shall be called with the address of the block of storage to be reclaimed as its first argument and (if the two-parameter style is used) the size of the block as its second argument.118 Any deallocation function for a class X is a static member (even if not explicitly declared static). [ Example: class X { void operator delete(void*); void operator delete[](void*, std::size_t); }; class Y { void operator delete(void*, std::size_t); void operator delete[](void*); }; 117) A similar provision is not needed for the array version of operator delete because 5.3.5 requires that in this situation, the static type of the object to be deleted be the same as its dynamic type. 118) If the static type of the object to be deleted is different from the dynamic type and the destructor is not virtual the size might be incorrect, but that case is already undefined; see 5.3.5.
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— end example ] Since member allocation and deallocation functions are static they cannot be virtual. [ Note: however, when the cast-expression of a delete-expression refers to an object of class type, because the deallocation function actually called is looked up in the scope of the class that is the dynamic type of the object, if the destructor is virtual, the effect is the same. For example, struct B { virtual ~B(); void operator delete(void*, std::size_t); }; struct D : B { void operator delete(void*); }; void f() { B* bp = new D; delete bp; }
//1: uses D::operator delete(void*)
Here, storage for the non-array object of class D is deallocated by D::operator delete(), due to the virtual destructor. — end note ] [ Note: Virtual destructors have no effect on the deallocation function actually called when the cast-expression of a delete-expression refers to an array of objects of class type. For example, struct B { virtual ~B(); void operator delete[](void*, std::size_t); }; struct D : B { void operator delete[](void*, std::size_t); }; void f(int i) { D* dp = new D[i]; delete [] dp; // uses D::operator delete[](void*, std::size_t) B* bp = new D[i]; delete[] bp; // undefined behavior } 8
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— end note ] Access to the deallocation function is checked statically. Hence, even though a different one might actually be executed, the statically visible deallocation function is required to be accessible. [ Example: for the call on line //1 above, if B::operator delete() had been private, the delete expression would have been ill-formed. — end example ] [ Note: If a deallocation function has no explicit exception-specification, it is treated as if it were specified with noexcept(true) (15.4). — end note ]
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Initialization
[class.init]
When no initializer is specified for an object of (possibly cv-qualified) class type (or array thereof), or the initializer has the form (), the object is initialized as specified in 8.5. An object of class type (or array thereof) can be explicitly initialized; see 12.6.1 and 12.6.2. When an array of class objects is initialized (either explicitly or implicitly) and the elements are initialized by constructor, the constructor shall be called for each element of the array, following the subscript order;
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see 8.3.4. [ Note: Destructors for the array elements are called in reverse order of their construction. — end note ]
12.6.1 1
Explicit initialization
[class.expl.init]
An object of class type can be initialized with a parenthesized expression-list, where the expression-list is construed as an argument list for a constructor that is called to initialize the object. Alternatively, a single assignment-expression can be specified as an initializer using the = form of initialization. Either direct-initialization semantics or copy-initialization semantics apply; see 8.5. [ Example: struct complex { complex(); complex(double); complex(double,double); }; complex sqrt(complex,complex); complex a(1); complex b = a; complex c = complex(1,2);
complex d = sqrt(b,c); complex e; complex f = 3;
complex g = { 1, 2 };
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// // // // // // // // // // // // // // // //
initialize by a call of complex(double) initialize by a copy of a construct complex(1,2) using complex(double,double) copy/move it into c call sqrt(complex,complex) and copy/move the result into d initialize by a call of complex() construct complex(3) using complex(double) copy/move it into f construct complex(1, 2) using complex(double, double) and copy/move it into g
— end example ] [ Note: overloading of the assignment operator (13.5.3) has no effect on initialization. — end note ] An object of class type can also be initialized by a braced-init-list. List-initialization semantics apply; see 8.5 and 8.5.4. [ Example: complex v[6] = { 1, complex(1,2), complex(), 2 };
Here, complex::complex(double) is called for the initialization of v[0] and v[3], complex::complex( double, double) is called for the initialization of v[1], complex::complex() is called for the initialization v[2], v[4], and v[5]. For another example, struct X { int i; float f; complex c; } x = { 99, 88.8, 77.7 };
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In the definition of a constructor for a class, initializers for direct and virtual base subobjects and non-static data members can be specified by a ctor-initializer, which has the form ctor-initializer: : mem-initializer-list mem-initializer-list: mem-initializer ...opt mem-initializer , mem-initializer-list ...opt mem-initializer: mem-initializer-id ( expression-listopt ) mem-initializer-id braced-init-list mem-initializer-id: class-or-decltype identifier
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In a mem-initializer-id an initial unqualified identifier is looked up in the scope of the constructor’s class and, if not found in that scope, it is looked up in the scope containing the constructor’s definition. [ Note: If the constructor’s class contains a member with the same name as a direct or virtual base class of the class, a mem-initializer-id naming the member or base class and composed of a single identifier refers to the class member. A mem-initializer-id for the hidden base class may be specified using a qualified name. — end note ] Unless the mem-initializer-id names the constructor’s class, a non-static data member of the constructor’s class, or a direct or virtual base of that class, the mem-initializer is ill-formed. A mem-initializer-list can initialize a base class using any class-or-decltype that denotes that base class type. [ Example: struct A { A(); }; typedef A global_A; struct B { }; struct C: public A, public B { C(); }; C::C(): global_A() { } // mem-initializer for base A
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— end example ] If a mem-initializer-id is ambiguous because it designates both a direct non-virtual base class and an inherited virtual base class, the mem-initializer is ill-formed. [ Example: struct A { A(); }; struct B: public virtual A { }; struct C: public A, public B { C(); }; C::C(): A() { } // ill-formed: which A?
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— end example ] A ctor-initializer may initialize a variant member of the constructor’s class. If a ctor-initializer specifies more than one mem-initializer for the same member or for the same base class, the ctor-initializer is ill-formed. A mem-initializer-list can delegate to another constructor of the constructor’s class using any class-ordecltype that denotes the constructor’s class itself. If a mem-initializer-id designates the constructor’s class, it shall be the only mem-initializer; the constructor is a delegating constructor, and the constructor selected by the mem-initializer is the target constructor. The principal constructor is the first constructor invoked in the construction of an object (that is, not a target constructor for that object’s construction). The target constructor is selected by overload resolution. Once the target constructor returns, the body of the delegating constructor is executed. If a constructor delegates to itself directly or indirectly, the program is ill-formed; no diagnostic is required. [ Example: struct C {
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// // // //
#1: #2: #3: #4:
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— end example ] The expression-list or braced-init-list in a mem-initializer is used to initialize the designated subobject (or, in the case of a delegating constructor, the complete class object) according to the initialization rules of 8.5 for direct-initialization. [ Example: struct B1 { B1(int); /∗ ... ∗/ }; struct B2 { B2(int); /∗ ... ∗/ }; struct D : B1, B2 { D(int); B1 b; const int c; }; D::D(int a) : B2(a+1), B1(a+2), c(a+3), b(a+4) { /∗ ... ∗/ } D d(10);
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— end example ] The initialization performed by each mem-initializer constitutes a full-expression. Any expression in a mem-initializer is evaluated as part of the full-expression that performs the initialization. A mem-initializer where the mem-initializer-id denotes a virtual base class is ignored during execution of a constructor of any class that is not the most derived class. In a non-delegating constructor, if a given non-static data member or base class is not designated by a mem-initializer-id (including the case where there is no mem-initializer-list because the constructor has no ctor-initializer) and the entity is not a virtual base class of an abstract class (10.4), then — if the entity is a non-static data member that has a brace-or-equal-initializer, the entity is initialized as specified in 8.5; — otherwise, if the entity is an anonymous union or a variant member (9.5), no initialization is performed; — otherwise, the entity is default-initialized (8.5). [ Note: An abstract class (10.4) is never a most derived class, thus its constructors never initialize virtual base classes, therefore the corresponding mem-initializers may be omitted. — end note ] An attempt to initialize more than one non-static data member of a union renders the program ill-formed. After the call to a constructor for class X has completed, if a member of X is neither initialized nor given a value during execution of the compound-statement of the body of the constructor, the member has indeterminate value. [ Example: struct A { A(); }; struct B { B(int); }; struct C { C() { } A a;
§ 12.6.2
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— end example ] If a given non-static data member has both a brace-or-equal-initializer and a mem-initializer, the initialization specified by the mem-initializer is performed, and the non-static data member’s brace-or-equal-initializer is ignored. [ Example: Given struct A { int i = /∗ some integer expression with side effects ∗/ ; A(int arg) : i(arg) { } // ... };
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the A(int) constructor will simply initialize i to the value of arg, and the side effects in i’s brace-orequal-initializer will not take place. — end example ] In a non-delegating constructor, initialization proceeds in the following order: — First, and only for the constructor of the most derived class (1.8), virtual base classes are initialized in the order they appear on a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes, where “left-to-right” is the order of appearance of the base classes in the derived class base-specifier-list. — Then, direct base classes are initialized in declaration order as they appear in the base-specifier-list (regardless of the order of the mem-initializers). — Then, non-static data members are initialized in the order they were declared in the class definition (again regardless of the order of the mem-initializers). — Finally, the compound-statement of the constructor body is executed.
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v(1); a(2); b(3); c(4);
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use use use use
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— end example ] Names in the expression-list or braced-init-list of a mem-initializer are evaluated in the scope of the constructor for which the mem-initializer is specified. [ Example: class X { int a; int b; int i; int j; public: const int& r; X(int i): r(a), b(i), i(i), j(this->i) { } };
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initializes X::r to refer to X::a, initializes X::b with the value of the constructor parameter i, initializes X::i with the value of the constructor parameter i, and initializes X::j with the value of X::i; this takes place each time an object of class X is created. — end example ] [ Note: Because the mem-initializer are evaluated in the scope of the constructor, the this pointer can be used in the expression-list of a meminitializer to refer to the object being initialized. — end note ] Member functions (including virtual member functions, 10.3) can be called for an object under construction. Similarly, an object under construction can be the operand of the typeid operator (5.2.8) or of a dynamic_cast (5.2.7). However, if these operations are performed in a ctor-initializer (or in a function called directly or indirectly from a ctor-initializer) before all the mem-initializers for base classes have completed, the result of the operation is undefined. [ Example: class A { public: A(int); }; class B : public A { int j; public: int f(); B() : A(f()), // undefined: calls member function // but base A not yet initialized j(f()) { } // well-defined: bases are all initialized }; class C { public: C(int); }; class D : public B, C { int i; public: D() : C(f()), // undefined: calls member function
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— end example ] [ Note: 12.7 describes the result of virtual function calls, typeid and dynamic_casts during construction for the well-defined cases; that is, describes the polymorphic behavior of an object under construction. — end note ] A mem-initializer followed by an ellipsis is a pack expansion (14.5.3) that initializes the base classes specified by a pack expansion in the base-specifier-list for the class. [ Example: template class X : public Mixins... { public: X(const Mixins&... mixins) : Mixins(mixins)... { } };
— end example ]
12.7 1
Construction and destruction
For an object with a non-trivial constructor, referring to any non-static member or base class of the object before the constructor begins execution results in undefined behavior. For an object with a non-trivial destructor, referring to any non-static member or base class of the object after the destructor finishes execution results in undefined behavior. [ Example: struct struct struct struct
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{ : { :
int i; }; X { Y(); }; int a; }; public A { int j; Y y; };
// non-trivial // non-trivial
extern B bobj; B* pb = &bobj; int* p1 = &bobj.a; int* p2 = &bobj.y.i;
// OK // undefined, refers to base class member // undefined, refers to member’s member
A* pa = &bobj; B bobj;
// undefined, upcast to a base class type // definition of bobj
extern X xobj; int* p3 = &xobj.i; X xobj;
//OK, X is a trivial class
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A B C D X
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undefined: upcast from E* to A* might use path E* → D* → A* but D is not constructed D((C*)this), // defined: E* → C* defined because E() has started and C* → A* defined because C fully constructed defined: upon construction of X, C/B/D/A sublattice is fully constructed
— end example ] Member functions, including virtual functions (10.3), can be called during construction or destruction (12.6.2). When a virtual function is called directly or indirectly from a constructor or from a destructor, including during the construction or destruction of the class’s non-static data members, and the object to which the call applies is the object (call it x) under construction or destruction, the function called is the final overrider in the constructor’s or destructor’s class and not one overriding it in a more-derived class. If the virtual function call uses an explicit class member access (5.2.5) and the object expression refers to the complete object of x or one of that object’s base class subobjects but not x or one of its base class subobjects, the behavior is undefined. [ Example: struct V { virtual void f(); virtual void g(); }; struct A : virtual V { virtual void f(); }; struct B : virtual V { virtual void g(); B(V*, A*); }; struct D : A, B { virtual void f(); virtual void g(); D() : B((A*)this, this) { } }; B::B(V* v, A* a) { f();
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— end example ] The typeid operator (5.2.8) can be used during construction or destruction (12.6.2). When typeid is used in a constructor (including the mem-initializer or brace-or-equal-initializer for a non-static data member) or in a destructor, or used in a function called (directly or indirectly) from a constructor or destructor, if the operand of typeid refers to the object under construction or destruction, typeid yields the std::type_info object representing the constructor or destructor’s class. If the operand of typeid refers to the object under construction or destruction and the static type of the operand is neither the constructor or destructor’s class nor one of its bases, the result of typeid is undefined. dynamic_casts (5.2.7) can be used during construction or destruction (12.6.2). When a dynamic_cast is used in a constructor (including the mem-initializer or brace-or-equal-initializer for a non-static data member) or in a destructor, or used in a function called (directly or indirectly) from a constructor or destructor, if the operand of the dynamic_cast refers to the object under construction or destruction, this object is considered to be a most derived object that has the type of the constructor or destructor’s class. If the operand of the dynamic_cast refers to the object under construction or destruction and the static type of the operand is not a pointer to or object of the constructor or destructor’s own class or one of its bases, the dynamic_cast results in undefined behavior. [ Example: struct V { virtual void f(); }; struct A : virtual V { }; struct B : virtual V { B(V*, A*); }; struct D : A, B { D() : B((A*)this, this) { } }; B::B(V* v, A* a) { typeid(*this); typeid(*v); typeid(*a); dynamic_cast(v); dynamic_cast(a);
// // // // // // // //
type_info for B well-defined: *v has type V, a base of B yields type_info for B undefined behavior: type A not a base of B well-defined: v of type V*, V base of B results in B* undefined behavior, a has type A*, A not a base of B
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12.8 1
Copying and moving class objects
[class.copy]
A class object can be copied or moved in two ways: by initialization (12.1, 8.5), including for function argument passing (5.2.2) and for function value return (6.6.3); and by assignment (5.17). Conceptually, these two operations are implemented by a copy/move constructor (12.1) and copy/move assignment operator (13.5.3).
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A non-template constructor for class X is a copy constructor if its first parameter is of type X&, const X&, volatile X& or const volatile X&, and either there are no other parameters or else all other parameters have default arguments (8.3.6). [ Example: X::X(const X&) and X::X(X&,int=1) are copy constructors. struct X { X(int); X(const X&, int = 1); }; X a(1); // calls X(int); X b(a, 0); // calls X(const X&, int); X c = b; // calls X(const X&, int);
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— end example ] A non-template constructor for class X is a move constructor if its first parameter is of type X&&, const X&&, volatile X&&, or const volatile X&&, and either there are no other parameters or else all other parameters have default arguments (8.3.6). [ Example: Y::Y(Y&&) is a move constructor. struct Y { Y(const Y&); Y(Y&&); }; extern Y f(int); Y d(f(1)); Y e = d;
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— end example ] — end note ] [ Note: If a class X only has a copy constructor with a parameter of type X&, an initializer of type const X or volatile X cannot initialize an object of type (possibly cv-qualified) X. [ Example: struct X { X(); X(X&); }; const X cx; X x = cx;
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// calls Y(Y&&) // calls Y(const Y&)
// default constructor // copy constructor with a nonconst parameter
// error: X::X(X&) cannot copy cx into x
— end example ] — end note ] A declaration of a constructor for a class X is ill-formed if its first parameter is of type (optionally cv-qualified) X and either there are no other parameters or else all other parameters have default arguments. A member function template is never instantiated to produce such a constructor signature. [ Example: struct S { template S(T); S(); }; S g;
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— end example ] If the class definition does not explicitly declare a copy constructor, one is declared implicitly. If the class definition declares a move constructor or move assignment operator, the implicitly declared copy constructor is defined as deleted; otherwise, it is defined as defaulted (8.4). The latter case is deprecated if the class has a user-declared copy assignment operator or a user-declared destructor. Thus, for the class definition struct X { X(const X&, int); };
a copy constructor is implicitly-declared. If the user-declared constructor is later defined as X::X(const X& x, int i =0) { /∗ ... ∗/ } 8
then any use of X’s copy constructor is ill-formed because of the ambiguity; no diagnostic is required. The implicitly-declared copy constructor for a class X will have the form X::X(const X&)
if — each direct or virtual base class B of X has a copy constructor whose first parameter is of type const B& or const volatile B&, and — for all the non-static data members of X that are of a class type M (or array thereof), each such class type has a copy constructor whose first parameter is of type const M& or const volatile M&.119 Otherwise, the implicitly-declared copy constructor will have the form X::X(X&) 9
If the definition of a class X does not explicitly declare a move constructor, one will be implicitly declared as defaulted if and only if — X does not have a user-declared copy constructor, — X does not have a user-declared copy assignment operator, — X does not have a user-declared move assignment operator, — X does not have a user-declared destructor, and — the move constructor would not be implicitly defined as deleted.
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An implicitly-declared copy/move constructor is an inline public member of its class. A defaulted copy/ move constructor for a class X is defined as deleted (8.4.3) if X has: 119) This implies that the reference parameter of the implicitly-declared copy constructor cannot bind to a volatile lvalue; see C.1.9.
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— a variant member with a non-trivial corresponding constructor and X is a union-like class, — a non-static data member of class type M (or array thereof) that cannot be copied/moved because overload resolution (13.3), as applied to M’s corresponding constructor, results in an ambiguity or a function that is deleted or inaccessible from the defaulted constructor, — a direct or virtual base class B that cannot be copied/moved because overload resolution (13.3), as applied to B’s corresponding constructor, results in an ambiguity or a function that is deleted or inaccessible from the defaulted constructor, — any direct or virtual base class or non-static data member of a type with a destructor that is deleted or inaccessible from the defaulted constructor, — for the copy constructor, a non-static data member of rvalue reference type, or — for the move constructor, a non-static data member or direct or virtual base class with a type that does not have a move constructor and is not trivially copyable. 12
A copy/move constructor for class X is trivial if it is not user-provided, its declared parameter type is the same as if it had been implicitly declared, and if — class X has no virtual functions (10.3) and no virtual base classes (10.1), and — the constructor selected to copy/move each direct base class subobject is trivial, and — for each non-static data member of X that is of class type (or array thereof), the constructor selected to copy/move that member is trivial;
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A user-declared copy assignment operator X::operator= is a non-static non-template member function of class X with exactly one parameter of type X, X&, const X&, volatile X& or const volatile X&.120 [ Note: An overloaded assignment operator must be declared to have only one parameter; see 13.5.3. — end note ] [ Note: More than one form of copy assignment operator may be declared for a class. — end note ] [ Note: If a class X only has a copy assignment operator with a parameter of type X&, an expression of type const X cannot be assigned to an object of type X. [ Example: struct X { X(); X& operator=(X&); }; const X cx; X x; void f() { x = cx; // error: X::operator=(X&) cannot assign cx into x }
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— end example ] — end note ] If the class definition does not explicitly declare a copy assignment operator, one is declared implicitly. If the class definition declares a move constructor or move assignment operator, the implicitly declared copy assignment operator is defined as deleted; otherwise, it is defined as defaulted (8.4). The latter case is deprecated if the class has a user-declared copy constructor or a user-declared destructor. The implicitlydeclared copy assignment operator for a class X will have the form X& X::operator=(const X&)
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— X does not have a user-declared destructor, and — the move assignment operator would not be implicitly defined as deleted. [ Example: The class definition struct S { int a; S& operator=(const S&) = default; };
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— end example ] The implicitly-declared move assignment operator for a class X will have the form X& X::operator=(X&&);
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It is unspecified whether the virtual base class subobject V is assigned twice by the implicitly-defined copy assignment operator for C. — end example ] [ Note: This does not apply to move assignment, as a defaulted move assignment operator is deleted if the class has virtual bases. — end note ] The implicitly-defined copy assignment operator for a union X copies the object representation (3.9) of X. A program is ill-formed if the copy/move constructor or the copy/move assignment operator for an object is implicitly odr-used and the special member function is not accessible (Clause 11). [ Note: Copying/moving one object into another using the copy/move constructor or the copy/move assignment operator does not change the layout or size of either object. — end note ] When certain criteria are met, an implementation is allowed to omit the copy/move construction of a class object, even if the constructor selected for the copy/move operation and/or the destructor for the object have side effects. In such cases, the implementation treats the source and target of the omitted copy/move operation as simply two different ways of referring to the same object, and the destruction of that object occurs at the later of the times when the two objects would have been destroyed without the optimization.122 This elision of copy/move operations, called copy elision, is permitted in the following circumstances (which may be combined to eliminate multiple copies): 122) Because only one object is destroyed instead of two, and one copy/move constructor is not executed, there is still one object destroyed for each one constructed.
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— in a return statement in a function with a class return type, when the expression is the name of a non-volatile automatic object (other than a function or catch-clause parameter) with the same cvunqualified type as the function return type, the copy/move operation can be omitted by constructing the automatic object directly into the function’s return value — in a throw-expression, when the operand is the name of a non-volatile automatic object (other than a function or catch-clause parameter) whose scope does not extend beyond the end of the innermost enclosing try-block (if there is one), the copy/move operation from the operand to the exception object (15.1) can be omitted by constructing the automatic object directly into the exception object — when a temporary class object that has not been bound to a reference (12.2) would be copied/moved to a class object with the same cv-unqualified type, the copy/move operation can be omitted by constructing the temporary object directly into the target of the omitted copy/move — when the exception-declaration of an exception handler (Clause 15) declares an object of the same type (except for cv-qualification) as the exception object (15.1), the copy/move operation can be omitted by treating the exception-declaration as an alias for the exception object if the meaning of the program will be unchanged except for the execution of constructors and destructors for the object declared by the exception-declaration. [ Example: class Thing { public: Thing(); ~Thing(); Thing(const Thing&); }; Thing f() { Thing t; return t; } Thing t2 = f();
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// OK: Thing(Thing&&) used (or elided) to throw t // OK: Thing(Thing&&) used (or elided) to return t
// OK: Thing(Thing&&) used (or elided) to construct t2
— end example ]
12.9 1
Inheriting constructors
[class.inhctor]
A using-declaration (7.3.3) that names a constructor implicitly declares a set of inheriting constructors. The candidate set of inherited constructors from the class X named in the using-declaration consists of actual constructors and notional constructors that result from the transformation of defaulted parameters as follows: — all non-template constructors of X, and — for each non-template constructor of X that has at least one parameter with a default argument, the set of constructors that results from omitting any ellipsis parameter specification and successively omitting parameters with a default argument from the end of the parameter-type-list, and — all constructor templates of X, and — for each constructor template of X that has at least one parameter with a default argument, the set of constructor templates that results from omitting any ellipsis parameter specification and successively omitting parameters with a default argument from the end of the parameter-type-list.
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The candidate set of inherited constructors in D1 for B1 is — B1(const B1&) — B1(B1&&) — B1(int) The set of constructors present in D1 is — D1(), implicitly-declared default constructor, ill-formed if odr-used — D1(const D1&), implicitly-declared copy constructor, not inherited — D1(D1&&), implicitly-declared move constructor, not inherited — D1(int), implicitly-declared inheriting constructor The candidate set of inherited constructors in D2 for B2 is — B2(const B2&) — B2(B2&&) — B2(int = 13, int = 42) — B2(int = 13) — B2() The set of constructors present in D2 is — D2(), implicitly-declared default constructor, not inherited — D2(const D2&), implicitly-declared copy constructor, not inherited — D2(D2&&), implicitly-declared move constructor, not inherited — D2(int, int), implicitly-declared inheriting constructor — D2(int), implicitly-declared inheriting constructor
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if the postfix-expression denotes a set of overloaded functions and/or function templates, overload resolution is applied as specified in 13.3.1.1.1. If the postfix-expression denotes an object of class type, overload resolution is applied as specified in 13.3.1.1.2. If the postfix-expression denotes the address of a set of overloaded functions and/or function templates, overload resolution is applied using that set as described above. If the function selected by overload resolution is a non-static member function, the program is ill-formed. [ Note: The resolution of the address of an overload set in other contexts is described in 13.4. — end note ] 13.3.1.1.1 Call to named function [over.call.func] Of interest in 13.3.1.1.1 are only those function calls in which the postfix-expression ultimately contains a name that denotes one or more functions that might be called. Such a postfix-expression, perhaps nested arbitrarily deep in parentheses, has one of the following forms: postfix-expression: postfix-expression . id-expression postfix-expression -> id-expression primary-expression
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For all other operators, no such restrictions apply. The set of candidate functions for overload resolution is the union of the member candidates, the non-member candidates, and the built-in candidates. The argument list contains all of the operands of the operator. The best function from the set of candidate functions is selected according to 13.3.2 and 13.3.3.128 [ Example: struct A { operator int(); }; A operator+(const A&, const A&); void m() { A a, b; a + b; // operator+(a,b) chosen over int(a) + int(b) }
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Define ICSi(F) as follows: — if F is a static member function, ICS1 (F) is defined such that ICS1 (F) is neither better nor worse than ICS1 (G) for any function G, and, symmetrically, ICS1 (G) is neither better nor worse than ICS1 (F)131 ; otherwise, — let ICSi(F) denote the implicit conversion sequence that converts the i-th argument in the list to the type of the i-th parameter of viable function F. 13.3.3.1 defines the implicit conversion sequences and 13.3.3.2 defines what it means for one implicit conversion sequence to be a better conversion sequence or worse conversion sequence than another. 130) According to 8.3.6, parameters following the (m+1)-st parameter must also have default arguments. 131) If a function is a static member function, this definition means that the first argument, the implied object argument, has
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Given these definitions, a viable function F1 is defined to be a better function than another viable function F2 if for all arguments i, ICSi(F1) is not a worse conversion sequence than ICSi(F2), and then — for some argument j, ICSj(F1) is a better conversion sequence than ICSj(F2), or, if not that, — the context is an initialization by user-defined conversion (see 8.5, 13.3.1.5, and 13.3.1.6) and the standard conversion sequence from the return type of F1 to the destination type (i.e., the type of the entity being initialized) is a better conversion sequence than the standard conversion sequence from the return type of F2 to the destination type. [ Example: struct A { A(); operator int(); operator double(); } a; int i = a;
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— end example ] If the best viable function resolves to a function for which multiple declarations were found, and if at least two of these declarations — or the declarations they refer to in the case of using-declarations — specify a default argument that made the function viable, the program is ill-formed. [ Example: namespace A { extern "C" void f(int = 5); } namespace B { extern "C" void f(int = 5); } using A::f; using B::f; void use() { f(3); f(); }
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An implicit conversion sequence is a sequence of conversions used to convert an argument in a function call to the type of the corresponding parameter of the function being called. The sequence of conversions is an implicit conversion as defined in Clause 4, which means it is governed by the rules for initialization of an object or reference by a single expression (8.5, 8.5.3). Implicit conversion sequences are concerned only with the type, cv-qualification, and value category of the argument and how these are converted to match the corresponding properties of the parameter. Other properties, such as the lifetime, storage class, alignment, or accessibility of the argument and whether or not the argument is a bit-field are ignored. So, although an implicit conversion sequence can be defined for a given argument-parameter pair, the conversion from the argument to the parameter might still be ill-formed in the final analysis. A well-formed implicit conversion sequence is one of the following forms: — a standard conversion sequence (13.3.3.1.1), — a user-defined conversion sequence (13.3.3.1.2), or — an ellipsis conversion sequence (13.3.3.1.3).
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Table 12 summarizes the conversions defined in Clause 4 and partitions them into four disjoint categories: Lvalue Transformation, Qualification Adjustment, Promotion, and Conversion. [ Note: These categories are orthogonal with respect to value category, cv-qualification, and data representation: the Lvalue Transformations do not change the cv-qualification or data representation of the type; the Qualification Adjustments do not change the value category or data representation of the type; and the Promotions and Conversions do not change the value category or cv-qualification of the type. — end note ] [ Note: As described in Clause 4, a standard conversion sequence is either the Identity conversion by itself (that is, no conversion) or consists of one to three conversions from the other four categories. At most one conversion from each category is allowed in a single standard conversion sequence. If there are two or more 133) The ambiguous conversion sequence is ranked with user-defined conversion sequences because multiple conversion sequences for an argument can exist only if they involve different user-defined conversions. The ambiguous conversion sequence is indistinguishable from any other user-defined conversion sequence because it represents at least two user-defined conversion sequences, each with a different user-defined conversion, and any other user-defined conversion sequence must be indistinguishable from at least one of them. This rule prevents a function from becoming non-viable because of an ambiguous conversion sequence for one of its parameters. Consider this example,
class B; class A { class B { class C { void f(A) void f(C) B b; f(b);
A (B&);}; operator A (); }; C (B&); }; { } { } // ambiguous because b → C via constructor and // b → A via constructor or conversion function.
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conversions in the sequence, the conversions are applied in the canonical order: Lvalue Transformation, Promotion or Conversion, Qualification Adjustment. — end note ] Each conversion in Table 12 also has an associated rank (Exact Match, Promotion, or Conversion). These are used to rank standard conversion sequences (13.3.3.2). The rank of a conversion sequence is determined by considering the rank of each conversion in the sequence and the rank of any reference binding (13.3.3.1.4). If any of those has Conversion rank, the sequence has Conversion rank; otherwise, if any of those has Promotion rank, the sequence has Promotion rank; otherwise, the sequence has Exact Match rank. Table 12 — Conversions Conversion No conversions required Lvalue-to-rvalue conversion Array-to-pointer conversion Function-to-pointer conversion Qualification conversions Integral promotions Floating point promotion Integral conversions Floating point conversions Floating-integral conversions Pointer conversions Pointer to member conversions Boolean conversions
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A user-defined conversion sequence consists of an initial standard conversion sequence followed by a userdefined conversion (12.3) followed by a second standard conversion sequence. If the user-defined conversion is specified by a constructor (12.3.1), the initial standard conversion sequence converts the source type to the type required by the argument of the constructor. If the user-defined conversion is specified by a conversion function (12.3.2), the initial standard conversion sequence converts the source type to the implicit object parameter of the conversion function. The second standard conversion sequence converts the result of the user-defined conversion to the target type for the sequence. Since an implicit conversion sequence is an initialization, the special rules for initialization by user-defined conversion apply when selecting the best user-defined conversion for a user-defined conversion sequence (see 13.3.3 and 13.3.3.1). If the user-defined conversion is specified by a specialization of a conversion function template, the second standard conversion sequence shall have exact match rank. A conversion of an expression of class type to the same class type is given Exact Match rank, and a conversion of an expression of class type to a base class of that type is given Conversion rank, in spite of the fact that a constructor (i.e., a user-defined conversion function) is called for those cases. 13.3.3.1.3 Ellipsis conversion sequences [over.ics.ellipsis]
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— end example ] If a template-parameter is a type-parameter with an ellipsis prior to its optional identifier or is a parameterdeclaration that declares a parameter pack (8.3.5), then the template-parameter is a template parameter pack (14.5.3). A template parameter pack that is a parameter-declaration whose type contains one or more unexpanded parameter packs is a pack expansion. Similarly, a template parameter pack that is a typeparameter with a template-parameter-list containing one or more unexpanded parameter packs is a pack expansion. A template parameter pack that is a pack expansion shall not expand a parameter pack declared in the same template-parameter-list. [ Example: § 14.1
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// // // //
Types is a template type parameter pack but not a pack expansion Dims is a non-type template parameter pack but not a pack expansion
// Values is a non-type template parameter pack // and a pack expansion
}; template struct static_array;// error: Values expands template type parameter // pack T within the same template parameter list
— end example ]
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[temp.names]
A template specialization (14.7) can be referred to by a template-id: simple-template-id: template-name < template-argument-listopt > template-id: simple-template-id operator-function-id < template-argument-listopt > literal-operator-id < template-argument-listopt > template-name: identifier template-argument-list: template-argument ...opt template-argument-list , template-argument ...opt template-argument: constant-expression type-id id-expression
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[ Note: The name lookup rules (3.4) are used to associate the use of a name with a template declaration; that is, to identify a name as a template-name. — end note ] For a template-name to be explicitly qualified by the template arguments, the name must be known to refer to a template. After name lookup (3.4) finds that a name is a template-name or that an operator-function-id or a literaloperator-id refers to a set of overloaded functions any member of which is a function template if this is followed by a 137 is taken as the ending delimiter rather than a greater-than operator. Similarly, the first non-nested >> is treated as two consecutive but distinct > tokens, the first of which is taken as the end of the template-argument-list and completes the template-id. [ Note: The second > token produced by this replacement rule may terminate an enclosing template-id construct or it may be part of a different construct (e.g. a cast). — end note ] [ Example: template class X { /* ...
*/ };
X< 1>2 > x1; X2)> x2;
// syntax error // OK
template class Y { /* ... Y x3; Y1>> x4;
*/ }; // OK, same as Y x3; // syntax error
137) A > that encloses the type-id of a dynamic_cast, static_cast, reinterpret_cast or const_cast, or which encloses the template-arguments of a subsequent template-id, is considered nested for the purpose of this description.
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— end example ] When the name of a member template specialization appears after . or -> in a postfix-expression or after a nested-name-specifier in a qualified-id, and the object expression of the postfix-expression is type-dependent or the nested-name-specifier in the qualified-id refers to a dependent type, but the name is not a member of the current instantiation (14.6.2.1), the member template name must be prefixed by the keyword template. Otherwise the name is assumed to name a non-template. [ Example: struct X { template X* alloc(); template static X* adjust(); }; template void f(T* p) { T* p1 = p->alloc(); // ill-formed: < T* p2 = p->template alloc(); // OK: < starts T::adjust(); // ill-formed: < T::template adjust(); // OK: < starts }
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— end example ] A name prefixed by the keyword template shall be a template-id or the name shall refer to a class template. [ Note: The keyword template may not be applied to non-template members of class templates. — end note ] [ Note: As is the case with the typename prefix, the template prefix is allowed in cases where it is not strictly necessary; i.e., when the nested-name-specifier or the expression on the left of the -> or . is not dependent on a template-parameter, or the use does not appear in the scope of a template. — end note ] [ Example: template struct A { void f(int); template void f(U); }; template void f(T t) { A a; a.template f(t); a.template f(t); }
// OK: calls template // error: not a template-id
template struct B { template struct C { }; }; // OK: T::template C names a class template: template struct D { }; D db; 6 7
— end example ] A simple-template-id that names a class template specialization is a class-name (Clause 9). A template-id that names an alias template specialization is a type-name.
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Template arguments
[temp.arg]
There are three forms of template-argument, corresponding to the three forms of template-parameter: type, non-type and template. The type and form of each template-argument specified in a template-id shall match the type and form specified for the corresponding parameter declared by the template in its templateparameter-list. When the parameter declared by the template is a template parameter pack (14.5.3), it will correspond to zero or more template-arguments. [ Example: § 14.3
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template class Array { T* v; int sz; public: explicit Array(int); T& operator[](int); T& elem(int i) { return v[i]; } }; Array v1(20); typedef std::complex dcomplex;
// std::complex is a standard // library template
Array v2(30); Array v3(40); void bar() { v1[3] = 7; v2[3] = v3.elem(4) = dcomplex(7,8); } 2
— end example ] In a template-argument, an ambiguity between a type-id and an expression is resolved to a type-id, regardless of the form of the corresponding template-parameter.138 [ Example: template void f(); template void f(); void g() { f(); }
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— end example ] The name of a template-argument shall be accessible at the point where it is used as a template-argument. [ Note: If the name of the template-argument is accessible at the point where it is used as a templateargument, there is no further access restriction in the resulting instantiation where the corresponding template-parameter name is used. — end note ] [ Example: template class X { static T t; }; class Y { private: struct S { /∗ ... ∗/ }; X x; // OK: S is accessible // X has a static member of type Y::S // OK: even though Y::S is private }; X y;
// error: S not accessible
— end example ] For a template-argument that is a class type or a class template, the template definition has no special access rights to the members of the template-argument. [ Example: 138) There is no such ambiguity in a default template-argument because the form of the template-parameter determines the allowable forms of the template-argument.
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— end example ] When template argument packs or default template-arguments are used, a template-argument list can be empty. In that case the empty brackets shall still be used as the template-argument-list. [ Example: template class String; String* p; // OK: String String* q; // syntax error template class Tuple; Tuple* t; // OK: Elements is empty Tuple* u; // syntax error
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— end example ] An explicit destructor call (12.4) for an object that has a type that is a class template specialization may explicitly specify the template-arguments. [ Example: template struct A { ~A(); }; void f(A* p, A* q) { p->A::~A(); q->A::~A(); }
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Template type arguments
[temp.arg.type]
A template-argument for a template-parameter which is a type shall be a type-id. [ Example: template class X { }; template void f(T t) { } struct { } unnamed_obj; void f() { struct A { }; enum { e1 }; typedef struct { } B; B b; X x1; // OK
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— end example ] [ Note: A template type argument may be an incomplete type (3.9). — end note ] If a declaration acquires a function type through a type dependent on a template-parameter and this causes a declaration that does not use the syntactic form of a function declarator to have function type, the program is ill-formed. [ Example: template struct A { static T t; }; typedef int function(); A a;
// ill-formed: would declare A::t // as a static member function
— end example ]
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[temp.arg.nontype]
A template-argument for a non-type, non-template template-parameter shall be one of: — for a non-type template-parameter of integral or enumeration type, a converted constant expression (5.19) of the type of the template-parameter; or — the name of a non-type template-parameter; or — a constant expression (5.19) that designates the address of an object with static storage duration and external or internal linkage or a function with external or internal linkage, including function templates and function template-ids but excluding non-static class members, expressed (ignoring parentheses) as & id-expression, except that the & may be omitted if the name refers to a function or array and shall be omitted if the corresponding template-parameter is a reference; or — a constant expression that evaluates to a null pointer value (4.10); or — a constant expression that evaluates to a null member pointer value (4.11); or — a pointer to member expressed as described in 5.3.1.
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[ Note: A string literal (2.14.5) does not satisfy the requirements of any of these categories and thus is not an acceptable template-argument. [ Example: template class X { /∗ ... ∗/ }; X x1;
// error: string literal as template-argument
const char p[] = "Vivisectionist"; X x2; // OK 3
— end example ] — end note ] [ Note: Addresses of array elements and names or addresses of non-static class members are not acceptable template-arguments. [ Example:
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// // // //
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— end example ] — end note ] [ Note: Temporaries, unnamed lvalues, and named lvalues with no linkage are not acceptable templatearguments when the corresponding template-parameter has reference type. [ Example: template struct B { /∗ ... ∗/ };
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// error: temporary would be required for template argument
int c = 1; B b1;
// OK
— end example ] — end note ] The following conversions are performed on each expression used as a non-type template-argument. If a non-type template-argument cannot be converted to the type of the corresponding template-parameter then the program is ill-formed. — For a non-type template-parameter of integral or enumeration type, conversions permitted in a converted constant expression (5.19) are applied. — for a non-type template-parameter of type pointer to object, qualification conversions (4.4) and the array-to-pointer conversion (4.2) are applied; if the template-argument is of type std::nullptr_t, the null pointer conversion (4.10) is applied. [ Note: In particular, neither the null pointer conversion for a zero-valued integral constant expression (4.10) nor the derived-to-base conversion (4.10) are applied. Although 0 is a valid template-argument for a non-type template-parameter of integral type, it is not a valid template-argument for a non-type template-parameter of pointer type. However, both (int*)0 and nullptr are valid template-arguments for a non-type template-parameter of type “pointer to int.” — end note ] — For a non-type template-parameter of type reference to object, no conversions apply. The type referred to by the reference may be more cv-qualified than the (otherwise identical) type of the templateargument. The template-parameter is bound directly to the template-argument, which shall be an lvalue. — For a non-type template-parameter of type pointer to function, the function-to-pointer conversion (4.3) is applied; if the template-argument is of type std::nullptr_t, the null pointer conversion (4.10) is applied. If the template-argument represents a set of overloaded functions (or a pointer to such), the matching function is selected from the set (13.4). — For a non-type template-parameter of type reference to function, no conversions apply. If the templateargument represents a set of overloaded functions, the matching function is selected from the set (13.4). — For a non-type template-parameter of type pointer to member function, if the template-argument is of type std::nullptr_t, the null member pointer conversion (4.11) is applied; otherwise, no conversions apply. If the template-argument represents a set of overloaded member functions, the matching member function is selected from the set (13.4). § 14.3.2
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— For a non-type template-parameter of type pointer to data member, qualification conversions (4.4) are applied; if the template-argument is of type std::nullptr_t, the null member pointer conversion (4.11) is applied. [ Example: template struct X { /∗ ... ∗/ }; int ai[10]; X xi; // array to pointer and qualification conversions struct Y { /∗ ... ∗/ }; template struct Z { /∗ ... ∗/ }; Y y; Z z; // no conversion, but note extra cv-qualification template struct W { /∗ ... ∗/ }; int b[5]; W w; // no conversion void f(char); void f(int); template struct A { /∗ ... ∗/ }; A a;
// selects f(int)
— end example ]
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Template template arguments
[temp.arg.template]
A template-argument for a template template-parameter shall be the name of a class template or an alias template, expressed as id-expression. When the template-argument names a class template, only primary class templates are considered when matching the template template argument with the corresponding parameter; partial specializations are not considered even if their parameter lists match that of the template template parameter. Any partial specializations (14.5.5) associated with the primary class template are considered when a specialization based on the template template-parameter is instantiated. If a specialization is not visible at the point of instantiation, and it would have been selected had it been visible, the program is ill-formed; no diagnostic is required. [ Example: template class A { // primary template int x; }; template class A { // partial specialization long x; }; template class C { V y; V z; }; C c; // V within C uses the primary template, // so c.y.x has type int // V within C uses the partial specialization, // so c.z.x has type long
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X xa; X xb; X xc;
// OK // ill-formed: default arguments for the parameters of a template argument are ignored // ill-formed: a template parameter pack does not match a template parameter
Y ya; Y yb; Y yc;
// OK // OK // OK
— end example ] A template-argument matches a template template-parameter (call it P) when each of the template parameters in the template-parameter-list of the template-argument’s corresponding class template or alias template (call it A) matches the corresponding template parameter in the template-parameter-list of P. When P’s templateparameter-list contains a template parameter pack (14.5.3), the template parameter pack will match zero or more template parameters or template parameter packs in the template-parameter-list of A with the same type and form as the template parameter pack in P (ignoring whether those template parameters are template parameter packs) [ Example: template struct eval; template struct eval { }; template template template template template
struct A; struct B; struct C; struct D; struct E;
eval eA; eval eB; eval eC; eval eD; eval eE;
// // // // //
OK: matches OK: matches error: C does error: D does error: E does
partial specialization of partial specialization of not match TT in partial not match TT in partial not match TT in partial
eval eval specialization specialization specialization
— end example ]
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[temp.type]
Two template-ids refer to the same class or function if — their template-names, operator-function-ids, or literal-operator-ids refer to the same template and — their corresponding type template-arguments are the same type and — their corresponding non-type template arguments of integral or enumeration type have identical values and — their corresponding non-type template-arguments of pointer type refer to the same external object or function or are both the null pointer value and — their corresponding non-type template-arguments of pointer-to-member type refer to the same class member or are both the null member pointer value and § 14.4
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— their corresponding non-type template-arguments of reference type refer to the same external object or function and — their corresponding template template-arguments refer to the same template. [ Example: template class buffer { /∗ ... ∗/ }; buffer x; buffer y;
declares x and y to be of the same type, and template class list { /∗ ... ∗/ }; list x1; list x2; list x3; list x4;
declares x2 and x3 to be of the same type. Their type differs from the types of x1 and x4. template struct X { }; template struct Y { }; template using Z = Y; X y; X z; 2
declares y and z to be of the same type. — end example ] If an expression e involves a template parameter, decltype(e) denotes a unique dependent type. Two such decltype-specifiers refer to the same type only if their expressions are equivalent (14.5.6.1). [ Note: however, it may be aliased, e.g., by a typedef-name. — end note ]
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Template declarations
A template-id, that is, the template-name followed by a template-argument-list shall not be specified in the declaration of a primary template declaration. [ Example: template class A { }; template void sort(T1 data[I]);
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— end example ] [ Note: However, this syntax is allowed in class template partial specializations (14.5.5). — end note ] For purposes of name lookup and instantiation, default arguments of function templates and default arguments of member functions of class templates are considered definitions; each default argument is a separate definition which is unrelated to the function template definition or to any other default arguments. Because an alias-declaration cannot declare a template-id, it is not possible to partially or explicitly specialize an alias template.
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Class templates
[temp.class]
A class template defines the layout and operations for an unbounded set of related types. [ Example: a single class template List might provide a common definition for list of int, list of float, and list of pointers to Shapes. — end example ] [ Example: An array class template might be declared like this: template class Array { T* v; int sz; public: explicit Array(int);
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The prefix template specifies that a template is being declared and that a type-name T will be used in the declaration. In other words, Array is a parameterized type with T as its parameter. — end example ] When a member function, a member class, a member enumeration, a static data member or a member template of a class template is defined outside of the class template definition, the member definition is defined as a template definition in which the template-parameters are those of the class template. The names of the template parameters used in the definition of the member may be different from the template parameter names used in the class template definition. The template argument list following the class template name in the member definition shall name the parameters in the same order as the one used in the template parameter list of the member. Each template parameter pack shall be expanded with an ellipsis in the template argument list. [ Example: template struct A { void f1(); void f2(); }; template void A::f1() { } template void A::f2() { }
// OK // error
template struct B { void f3(); void f4(); }; template void B::f3() { } template void B::f4() { } 4
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— end example ] In a redeclaration, partial specialization, explicit specialization or explicit instantiation of a class template, the class-key shall agree in kind with the original class template declaration (7.1.6.3). 14.5.1.1 Member functions of class templates [temp.mem.func] A member function of a class template may be defined outside of the class template definition in which it is declared. [ Example: template class Array { T* v; int sz; public: explicit Array(int); T& operator[](int); T& elem(int i) { return v[i]; } };
declares three function templates. The subscript function might be defined like this: template T& Array::operator[](int i) { if (i class A { };
// error
— end example ] — The argument list of the specialization shall not be identical to the implicit argument list of the primary template. — The template parameter list of a specialization shall not contain default template argument values.139 — An argument shall not contain an unexpanded parameter pack. If an argument is a pack expansion (14.5.3), it shall be the last argument in the template argument list. 14.5.5.1 1
Matching of class template partial specializations
[temp.class.spec.match]
When a class template is used in a context that requires an instantiation of the class, it is necessary to determine whether the instantiation is to be generated using the primary template or one of the partial specializations. This is done by matching the template arguments of the class template specialization with the template argument lists of the partial specializations. — If exactly one matching specialization is found, the instantiation is generated from that specialization. — If more than one matching specialization is found, the partial order rules (14.5.5.2) are used to determine whether one of the specializations is more specialized than the others. If none of the specializations is more specialized than all of the other matching specializations, then the use of the class template is ambiguous and the program is ill-formed. — If no matches are found, the instantiation is generated from the primary template.
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A partial specialization matches a given actual template argument list if the template arguments of the partial specialization can be deduced from the actual template argument list (14.8.2). [ Example: A A A A A
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// // // // //
uses #1 uses #2, T is int, I is 1 uses #4, T is char uses #5, T1 is int, T2 is char, I is 1 ambiguous: matches #3 and #5
— end example ] A non-type template argument can also be deduced from the value of an actual template argument of a non-type parameter of the primary template. [ Example: the declaration of a2 above. — end example ] In a type name that refers to a class template specialization, (e.g., A) the argument list shall match the template parameter list of the primary template. The template arguments of a specialization are deduced from the arguments of the primary template. 14.5.5.2
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[temp.class.order]
For two class template partial specializations, the first is at least as specialized as the second if, given the following rewrite to two function templates, the first function template is at least as specialized as the second according to the ordering rules for function templates (14.5.6.2): — the first function template has the same template parameters as the first partial specialization and has a single function parameter whose type is a class template specialization with the template arguments of the first partial specialization, and 139) There is no way in which they could be used.
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— the second function template has the same template parameters as the second partial specialization and has a single function parameter whose type is a class template specialization with the template arguments of the second partial specialization. 2
[ Example: template class X { }; template class X { }; // #1 template class X { }; // #2 template void f(X); template void f(X);
// A // B
The partial specialization #2 is more specialized than the partial specialization #1 because the function template B is more specialized than the function template A according to the ordering rules for function templates. — end example ] 14.5.5.3 1
Members of class template specializations
[temp.class.spec.mfunc]
The template parameter list of a member of a class template partial specialization shall match the template parameter list of the class template partial specialization. The template argument list of a member of a class template partial specialization shall match the template argument list of the class template partial specialization. A class template specialization is a distinct template. The members of the class template partial specialization are unrelated to the members of the primary template. Class template partial specialization members that are used in a way that requires a definition shall be defined; the definitions of members of the primary template are never used as definitions for members of a class template partial specialization. An explicit specialization of a member of a class template partial specialization is declared in the same way as an explicit specialization of the primary template. [ Example: // primary template template struct A { void f(); }; template void A::f() { } // class template partial specialization template struct A { void f(); void g(); void h(); }; // member of class template partial specialization template void A::g() { } // explicit specialization template void A::h() { } int main() { A a0; A a2; a0.f(); a2.g(); a2.h();
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— end example ] If a member template of a class template is partially specialized, the member template partial specializations are member templates of the enclosing class template; if the enclosing class template is instantiated (14.7.1, 14.7.2), a declaration for every member template partial specialization is also instantiated as part of creating the members of the class template specialization. If the primary member template is explicitly specialized for a given (implicit) specialization of the enclosing class template, the partial specializations of the member template are ignored for this specialization of the enclosing class template. If a partial specialization of the member template is explicitly specialized for a given (implicit) specialization of the enclosing class template, the primary member template and its other partial specializations are still considered for this specialization of the enclosing class template. [ Example: template struct A { template struct B {}; template struct B {}; };
// #1 // #2
template template struct A::B {};
// #3
A::B abcip; A::B absip; A::B abci;
// uses #2 // uses #3 // uses #1
— end example ]
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Function templates
[temp.fct]
A function template defines an unbounded set of related functions. [ Example: a family of sort functions might be declared like this: template class Array { }; template void sort(Array&);
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— end example ] A function template can be overloaded with other function templates and with normal (non-template) functions. A normal function is not related to a function template (i.e., it is never considered to be a specialization), even if it has the same name and type as a potentially generated function template specialization.140 14.5.6.1 Function template overloading [temp.over.link] It is possible to overload function templates so that two different function template specializations have the same type. [ Example: // file1.c template void f(T*); void g(int* p) { f(p); // calls f(int*) }
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— end example ] Such specializations are distinct functions and do not violate the one definition rule (3.2). 140) That is, declarations of non-template functions do not merely guide overload resolution of function template specializations with the same name. If such a non-template function is odr-used (3.2) in a program, it must be defined; it will not be implicitly instantiated using the function template definition.
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The signature of a function template is defined in 1.3. The names of the template parameters are significant only for establishing the relationship between the template parameters and the rest of the signature. [ Note: Two distinct function templates may have identical function return types and function parameter lists, even if overload resolution alone cannot distinguish them. template void f(); template void f();
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— end note ] When an expression that references a template parameter is used in the function parameter list or the return type in the declaration of a function template, the expression that references the template parameter is part of the signature of the function template. This is necessary to permit a declaration of a function template in one translation unit to be linked with another declaration of the function template in another translation unit and, conversely, to ensure that function templates that are intended to be distinct are not linked with one another. [ Example: template A f(A, A); template A f(A, A); template A f(A, A);
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— end example ] [ Note: Most expressions that use template parameters use non-type template parameters, but it is possible for an expression to reference a type parameter. For example, a template type parameter can be used in the sizeof operator. — end note ] Two expressions involving template parameters are considered equivalent if two function definitions containing the expressions would satisfy the one definition rule (3.2), except that the tokens used to name the template parameters may differ as long as a token used to name a template parameter in one expression is replaced by another token that names the same template parameter in the other expression. [ Example: template void f(A); template void f(A);
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// #1 // same as #1 // different from #1
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— end example ] Two expressions involving template parameters that are not equivalent are functionally equivalent if, for any given set of template arguments, the evaluation of the expression results in the same value. Two function templates are equivalent if they are declared in the same scope, have the same name, have identical template parameter lists, and have return types and parameter lists that are equivalent using the rules described above to compare expressions involving template parameters. Two function templates are functionally equivalent if they are equivalent except that one or more expressions that involve template parameters in the return types and parameter lists are functionally equivalent using the rules described above to compare expressions involving template parameters. If a program contains declarations of function templates that are functionally equivalent but not equivalent, the program is ill-formed; no diagnostic is required. [ Note: This rule guarantees that equivalent declarations will be linked with one another, while not requiring implementations to use heroic efforts to guarantee that functionally equivalent declarations will be treated as distinct. For example, the last two declarations are functionally equivalent and would cause a program to be ill-formed: // Guaranteed to be the same template void f(A, A); template void f(A, A); // Guaranteed to be different template void f(A, A); template void f(A, A);
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// #1
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— end example ] Using the transformed function template’s function type, perform type deduction against the other template as described in 14.8.2.4. [ Example: § 14.5.6.2
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// f(const T*) is more specialized than f(T) or f(T*) // Ambiguous: g(T) or g(T&) // overload resolution selects h(A&) // h(const T&) is called because h(A&) is not callable
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A template-declaration in which the declaration is an alias-declaration (Clause 7) declares the identifier to be a alias template. An alias template is a name for a family of types. The name of the alias template is a template-name. When a template-id refers to the specialization of an alias template, it is equivalent to the associated type obtained by substitution of its template-arguments for the template-parameters in the type-id of the alias template. [ Note: An alias template name is never deduced. — end note ] [ Example: template struct Alloc { /∗ ... ∗/ }; template using Vec = vector; Vec v; // same as vector v; template void process(Vec& v) { /∗ ... ∗/ } template void process(vector& w) { /∗ ... ∗/ } // error: redefinition template void f(TT); // error: Vec not deduced
f(v);
template void g(TT); g(v); // OK: TT = vector 3
— end example ] The type-id in an alias template declaration shall not refer to the alias template being declared. The type produced by an alias template specialization shall not directly or indirectly make use of that specialization. [ Example: template struct A; template using B = typename A::U; template struct A { typedef B U; }; B b; // error: instantiation of B uses own type via A::U
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— end example ] Within the definition of a class template or within the definition of a member of a class template following the declarator-id, the keyword typename is not required when referring to the name of a previously declared member of the class template that declares a type. [ Note: such names can be found using unqualified name lookup (3.4.1), class member lookup (3.4.3.1) into the current instantiation (14.6.2.1), or class member access expression lookup (3.4.5) when the type of the object expression is the current instantiation (14.6.2.2). — end note ] [ Example: template struct A { typedef int B; B b; // OK, no typename required };
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— end example ] When looking for the declaration of a name used in a template definition, the usual lookup rules (3.4.1, 3.4.2) are used for non-dependent names. The lookup of names dependent on the template parameters is postponed until the actual template argument is known (14.6.2). [ Example: #include using namespace std; template class Set { T* p; int cnt; public: Set(); Set(const Set&); void printall() { for (int i = 0; i ( expression ) reinterpret_cast < type-id > ( expression ) ( type-id ) cast-expression 4
Expressions of the following forms are never type-dependent (because the type of the expression cannot be dependent): literal postfix-expression . pseudo-destructor-name postfix-expression -> pseudo-destructor-name sizeof unary-expression sizeof ( type-id ) sizeof ... ( identifier ) alignof ( type-id ) typeid ( expression ) typeid ( type-id ) ::opt delete cast-expression ::opt delete [ ] cast-expression throw assignment-expressionopt noexcept ( expression )
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[ Note: For the standard library macro offsetof, see 18.2. — end note ] A class member access expression (5.2.5) is type-dependent if the expression refers to a member of the current instantiation and the type of the referenced member is dependent, or the class member access expression refers to a member of an unknown specialization. [ Note: In an expression of the form x.y or xp->y the type of the expression is usually the type of the member y of the class of x (or the class pointed to by xp). However, if x or xp refers to a dependent type that is not the current instantiation, the type of y is always dependent. If x or xp refers to a non-dependent type or refers to the current instantiation, the type of y is the type of the class member access expression. — end note ] 14.6.2.3
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Except as described below, a constant expression is value-dependent if any subexpression is value-dependent. An identifier is value-dependent if it is: — a name declared with a dependent type, — the name of a non-type template parameter, — a constant with literal type and is initialized with an expression that is value-dependent. Expressions of the following form are value-dependent if the unary-expression or expression is typedependent or the type-id is dependent: sizeof unary-expression sizeof ( type-id ) typeid ( expression ) typeid ( type-id ) alignof ( type-id ) noexcept ( expression )
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[ Note: For the standard library macro offsetof, see 18.2. — end note ] Expressions of the following form are value-dependent if either the type-id or simple-type-specifier is dependent or the expression or cast-expression is value-dependent:
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A type template-argument is dependent if the type it specifies is dependent. A non-type template-argument is dependent if its type is dependent or the constant expression it specifies is value-dependent. Furthermore, a non-type template-argument is dependent if the corresponding non-type template-parameter is of reference or pointer type and the template-argument designates or points to a member of the current instantiation or a member of a dependent type. A template template-argument is dependent if it names a template-parameter or is a qualified-id that refers to a member of an unknown specialization.
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Non-dependent names
[temp.nondep]
Non-dependent names used in a template definition are found using the usual name lookup and bound at the point they are used. [ Example: void g(double); void h(); template class Z { public: void f() { g(1); // calls g(double) h++; // ill-formed: cannot increment function; // this could be diagnosed either here or // at the point of instantiation } }; void g(int);
// not in scope at the point of the template // definition, not considered for the call g(1)
— end example ]
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[temp.dep.res]
In resolving dependent names, names from the following sources are considered: — Declarations that are visible at the point of definition of the template. — Declarations from namespaces associated with the types of the function arguments both from the instantiation context (14.6.4.1) and from the definition context. 14.6.4.1
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For a function template specialization, a member function template specialization, or a specialization for a member function or static data member of a class template, if the specialization is implicitly instantiated because it is referenced from within another template specialization and the context from which it is referenced depends on a template parameter, the point of instantiation of the specialization is the point of instantiation of the enclosing specialization. Otherwise, the point of instantiation for such a specialization immediately follows the namespace scope declaration or definition that refers to the specialization. § 14.6.4.1
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Friend classes or functions can be declared within a class template. When a template is instantiated, the names of its friends are treated as if the specialization had been explicitly declared at its point of instantiation. As with non-template classes, the names of namespace-scope friend functions of a class template specialization are not visible during an ordinary lookup unless explicitly declared at namespace scope (11.3). Such names may be found under the rules for associated classes (3.4.2).141 [ Example: template struct number { number(int); friend number gcd(number x, number y) { return 0; }; 141) Friend declarations do not introduce new names into any scope, either when the template is declared or when it is instantiated.
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}; void g() { number a(3), b(4); a = gcd(a,b); // finds gcd because number is an // associated class, making gcd visible // in its namespace (global scope) b = gcd(3,4); // ill-formed; gcd is not visible }
— end example ]
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The act of instantiating a function, a class, a member of a class template or a member template is referred to as template instantiation. A function instantiated from a function template is called an instantiated function. A class instantiated from a class template is called an instantiated class. A member function, a member class, a member enumeration, or a static data member of a class template instantiated from the member definition of the class template is called, respectively, an instantiated member function, member class, member enumeration, or static data member. A member function instantiated from a member function template is called an instantiated member function. A member class instantiated from a member class template is called an instantiated member class. An explicit specialization may be declared for a function template, a class template, a member of a class template or a member template. An explicit specialization declaration is introduced by template. In an explicit specialization declaration for a class template, a member of a class template or a class member template, the name of the class that is explicitly specialized shall be a simple-template-id. In the explicit specialization declaration for a function template or a member function template, the name of the function or member function explicitly specialized may be a template-id. [ Example: template struct A { static int x; }; template void g(U) { }
template void g(int) { } template int A::x = 0;
// // // // // //
template struct B { static int x; }; template int B::x = 1;
// specialize for T == int
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— end example ] An instantiated template specialization can be either implicitly instantiated (14.7.1) for a given argument list or be explicitly instantiated (14.7.2). A specialization is a class, function, or class member that is either instantiated or explicitly specialized (14.7.3). For a given template and a given set of template-arguments, — an explicit instantiation definition shall appear at most once in a program, — an explicit specialization shall be defined at most once in a program (according to 3.2), and — both an explicit instantiation and a declaration of an explicit specialization shall not appear in a program unless the explicit instantiation follows a declaration of the explicit specialization. § 14.7
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X has a static member s of type int and X has a static member s of type char*. — end example ]
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Unless a class template specialization has been explicitly instantiated (14.7.2) or explicitly specialized (14.7.3), the class template specialization is implicitly instantiated when the specialization is referenced in a context that requires a completely-defined object type or when the completeness of the class type affects the semantics of the program. The implicit instantiation of a class template specialization causes the implicit instantiation of the declarations, but not of the definitions or default arguments, of the class member functions, member classes, scoped member enumerations, static data members and member templates; and it causes the implicit instantiation of the definitions of unscoped member enumerations and member anonymous unions. However, for the purpose of determining whether an instantiated redeclaration of a member is valid according to 9.2, a declaration that corresponds to a definition in the template is considered to be a definition. [ Example: template struct Outer { template struct template struct Inner { };
// #1a // #1b; OK: valid redeclaration of #1a // #2
// error at #2
Outer::Inner is redeclared at #1b. (It is not defined but noted as being associated with a definition in Outer.) #2 is also a redeclaration of #1a. It is noted as associated with a definition, so it is an invalid redeclaration of the same partial specialization. — end example ] Unless a member of a class template or a member template has been explicitly instantiated or explicitly specialized, the specialization of the member is implicitly instantiated when the specialization is referenced in a context that requires the member definition to exist; in particular, the initialization (and any associated side-effects) of a static data member does not occur unless the static data member is itself used in a way that requires the definition of the static data member to exist. Unless a function template specialization has been explicitly instantiated or explicitly specialized, the function template specialization is implicitly instantiated when the specialization is referenced in a context that requires a function definition to exist. Unless a call is to a function template explicit specialization or to a member function of an explicitly specialized class template, a default argument for a function template or a member function of a class template is implicitly instantiated when the function is called in a context that requires the value of the default argument. [ Example: template struct Z { void f(); void g();
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— end example ] If the overload resolution process can determine the correct function to call without instantiating a class template definition, it is unspecified whether that instantiation actually takes place. [ Example: template struct S { operator int(); }; void f(int); void f(S&); void f(S); void g(S& sr) { f(sr); // instantiation of S allowed but not required // instantiation of S allowed but not required };
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— end example ] The implicit instantiation of a class template does not cause any static data members of that class to be implicitly instantiated. If a function template or a member function template specialization is used in a way that involves overload resolution, a declaration of the specialization is implicitly instantiated (14.8.3). An implementation shall not implicitly instantiate a function template, a member template, a non-virtual member function, a member class, or a static data member of a class template that does not require instantiation. It is unspecified whether or not an implementation implicitly instantiates a virtual member function of a class template if the virtual member function would not otherwise be instantiated. The use of a template specialization in a default argument shall not cause the template to be implicitly instantiated except that a class template may be instantiated where its complete type is needed to determine the correctness of the default argument. The use of a default argument in a function call causes specializations in the default argument to be implicitly instantiated. Implicitly instantiated class and function template specializations are placed in the namespace where the template is defined. Implicitly instantiated specializations for members of a class template are placed in the namespace where the enclosing class template is defined. Implicitly instantiated member templates are placed in the namespace where the enclosing class or class template is defined. [ Example: namespace N { template class List { public: T* get(); }; } template class Map { public: N::List lt; V get(K); }; void g(Map& m) { int i = m.get("Nicholas"); }
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a call of lt.get() from Map::get() would place List::get() in the namespace N rather than in the global namespace. — end example ] If a function template f is called in a way that requires a default argument to be used, the dependent names are looked up, the semantics constraints are checked, and the instantiation of any template used in the default argument is done as if the default argument had been an initializer used in a function template specialization with the same scope, the same template parameters and the same access as that of the function template f used at that point. This analysis is called default argument instantiation. The instantiated default argument is then used as the argument of f. Each default argument is instantiated independently. [ Example: template void f(T x, T y = ydef(T()), T z = zdef(T())); class
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— end example ] [ Note: 14.6.4.1 defines the point of instantiation of a template specialization. — end note ] There is an implementation-defined quantity that specifies the limit on the total depth of recursive instantiations, which could involve more than one template. The result of an infinite recursion in instantiation is undefined. [ Example: template class X { X* p; // OK X a; // implicit generation of X requires // the implicit instantiation of X which requires // the implicit instantiation of X which ... };
— end example ]
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A class, a function or member template specialization can be explicitly instantiated from its template. A member function, member class or static data member of a class template can be explicitly instantiated from the member definition associated with its class template. An explicit instantiation of a function template or member function of a class template shall not use the inline or constexpr specifiers. The syntax for explicit instantiation is: explicit-instantiation: externopt template declaration
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There are two forms of explicit instantiation: an explicit instantiation definition and an explicit instantiation declaration. An explicit instantiation declaration begins with the extern keyword. If the explicit instantiation is for a class or member class, the elaborated-type-specifier in the declaration shall include a simple-template-id. If the explicit instantiation is for a function or member function, the unqualifiedid in the declaration shall be either a template-id or, where all template arguments can be deduced, a template-name or operator-function-id. [ Note: The declaration may declare a qualified-id, in which case the unqualified-id of the qualified-id must be a template-id. — end note ] If the explicit instantiation is for a member function, a member class or a static data member of a class template specialization, the name of the class template specialization in the qualified-id for the member name shall be a simple-template-id. An explicit instantiation shall appear in an enclosing namespace of its template. If the name declared in the explicit instantiation is an unqualified name, the explicit instantiation shall appear in the namespace where its template is declared or, if that namespace is inline (7.3.1), any namespace from its enclosing namespace set. [ Note: Regarding qualified names in declarators, see 8.3. — end note ] [ Example: template class Array { void mf(); }; template class Array; template void Array::mf(); template void sort(Array& v) { /∗ ... ∗/ } template void sort(Array&); // argument is deduced here namespace N { template void f(T&) { } } template void N::f(int&);
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A declaration of a function template, a member function or static data member of a class template, or a member function template of a class or class template shall precede an explicit instantiation of that entity. A definition of a class template, a member class of a class template, or a member class template of a class or class template shall precede an explicit instantiation of that entity unless the explicit instantiation is preceded by an explicit specialization of the entity with the same template arguments. If the declaration of the explicit instantiation names an implicitly-declared special member function (Clause 12), the program is ill-formed. For a given set of template arguments, if an explicit instantiation of a template appears after a declaration of an explicit specialization for that template, the explicit instantiation has no effect. Otherwise, for an explicit instantiation definition the definition of a function template, a member function template, or a member function or static data member of a class template shall be present in every translation unit in which it is explicitly instantiated. An explicit instantiation of a class or function template specialization is placed in the namespace in which the template is defined. An explicit instantiation for a member of a class template is placed in the namespace where the enclosing class template is defined. An explicit instantiation for a member template is placed in the namespace where the enclosing class or class template is defined. [ Example: namespace N { template class Y { void mf() { } }; } template class Y;
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— end example ] A trailing template-argument can be left unspecified in an explicit instantiation of a function template specialization or of a member function template specialization provided it can be deduced from the type of a function parameter (14.8.2). [ Example: template class Array { /∗ ... ∗/ }; template void sort(Array& v) { /∗ ... ∗/ } // instantiate sort(Array&) - template-argument deduced template void sort(Array&);
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inline function that is the subject of an explicit instantiation declaration will still be implicitly instantiated when odr-used (3.2) so that the body can be considered for inlining, but that no out-of-line copy of the inline function would be generated in the translation unit. — end note ] If an entity is the subject of both an explicit instantiation declaration and an explicit instantiation definition in the same translation unit, the definition shall follow the declaration. An entity that is the subject of an explicit instantiation declaration and that is also used in a way that would otherwise cause an implicit instantiation (14.7.1) in the translation unit shall be the subject of an explicit instantiation definition somewhere in the program; otherwise the program is ill-formed, no diagnostic required. [ Note: This rule does apply to inline functions even though an explicit instantiation declaration of such an entity has no other normative effect. This is needed to ensure that if the address of an inline function is taken in a translation unit in which the implementation chose to suppress the out-of-line body, another translation unit will supply the body. — end note ] An explicit instantiation declaration shall not name a specialization of a template with internal linkage. The usual access checking rules do not apply to names used to specify explicit instantiations. [ Note: In particular, the template arguments and names used in the function declarator (including parameter types, return types and exception specifications) may be private types or objects which would normally not be accessible and the template may be a member template or member function which would not normally be accessible. — end note ] An explicit instantiation does not constitute a use of a default argument, so default argument instantiation is not done. [ Example: char* p = 0; template T g(T x = &p) { return x; } template int g(int); // OK even though &p isn’t an int.
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An explicit specialization of any of the following: — function template — class template — member function of a class template — static data member of a class template — member class of a class template — member enumeration of a class template — member class template of a class or class template — member function template of a class or class template can be declared by a declaration introduced by template; that is: explicit-specialization: template < > declaration
[ Example: template class stream; template class stream { /∗ ... ∗/ }; template class Array { /∗ ... ∗/ }; template void sort(Array& v) { /∗ ... ∗/ } template void sort(Array&) ;
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Given these declarations, stream will be used as the definition of streams of chars; other streams will be handled by class template specializations instantiated from the class template. Similarly, sort will be used as the sort function for arguments of type Array; other Array types will be sorted by functions generated from the template. — end example ] An explicit specialization shall be declared in a namespace enclosing the specialized template. An explicit specialization whose declarator-id is not qualified shall be declared in the nearest enclosing namespace of the template, or, if the namespace is inline (7.3.1), any namespace from its enclosing namespace set. Such a declaration may also be a definition. If the declaration is not a definition, the specialization may be defined later (7.3.1.2). A declaration of a function template or class template being explicitly specialized shall precede the declaration of the explicit specialization. [ Note: A declaration, but not a definition of the template is required. — end note ] The definition of a class or class template shall precede the declaration of an explicit specialization for a member template of the class or class template. [ Example: template class X { /∗ ... ∗/ };
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— end example ] A member function, a member function template, a member class, a member enumeration, a member class template, or a static data member of a class template may be explicitly specialized for a class specialization that is implicitly instantiated; in this case, the definition of the class template shall precede the explicit specialization for the member of the class template. If such an explicit specialization for the member of a class template names an implicitly-declared special member function (Clause 12), the program is ill-formed. A member of an explicitly specialized class is not implicitly instantiated from the member declaration of the class template; instead, the member of the class template specialization shall itself be explicitly defined if its definition is required. In this case, the definition of the class template explicit specialization shall be in scope at the point at which the member is defined. The definition of an explicitly specialized class is unrelated to the definition of a generated specialization. That is, its members need not have the same names, types, etc. as the members of a generated specialization. Members of an explicitly specialized class template are defined in the same manner as members of normal classes, and not using the template syntax. The same is true when defining a member of an explicitly specialized member class. However, template is used in defining a member of an explicitly specialized member class template that is specialized as a class template. [ Example: template struct A { struct B { }; template struct C { }; }; template struct A { void f(int); }; void h() { A a; a.f(16); }
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template struct A::B { void f(); }; // template also not used when defining a member of // an explicitly specialized member class void A::B::f() { /∗ ... ∗/ } template template struct A::C { void f(); }; // template is used when defining a member of an explicitly // specialized member class template specialized as a class template template template void A::C::f() { /∗ ... ∗/ } template struct A::B { void f(); }; template void A::B::f() { /∗ ... ∗/ }
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— end example ] If a template, a member template or a member of a class template is explicitly specialized then that specialization shall be declared before the first use of that specialization that would cause an implicit instantiation to take place, in every translation unit in which such a use occurs; no diagnostic is required. If the program does not provide a definition for an explicit specialization and either the specialization is used in a way that would cause an implicit instantiation to take place or the member is a virtual member function, the program is ill-formed, no diagnostic required. An implicit instantiation is never generated for an explicit specialization that is declared but not defined. [ Example: class String { }; template class Array { /∗ ... ∗/ }; template void sort(Array& v) { /∗ ... ∗/ } void f(Array& v) { sort(v); // use primary template // sort(Array&), T is String } template void sort(Array& v); // error: specialization // after use of primary template template void sort(Array& v); // OK: sort not yet used template struct A { enum E : T; enum class S : T; }; template enum A::E : int { eint }; // OK template enum class A::S : int { sint }; // OK template enum A::E : T { eT }; template enum class A::S : T { sT }; template enum A::E : int { echar }; // ill-formed, A::E was instantiated
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— end example ] The placement of explicit specialization declarations for function templates, class templates, member functions of class templates, static data members of class templates, member classes of class templates, member enumerations of class templates, member class templates of class templates, member function templates of class templates, member functions of member templates of class templates, member functions of member templates of non-template classes, member function templates of member classes of class templates, etc., and the placement of partial specialization declarations of class templates, member class templates of non-template classes, member class templates of class templates, etc., can affect whether a program is well-formed according to the relative positioning of the explicit specialization declarations and their points of instantiation in the translation unit as specified above and below. When writing a specialization, be careful about its location; or to make it compile will be such a trial as to kindle its self-immolation. A template explicit specialization is in the scope of the namespace in which the template was defined. [ Example: namespace N { template class X { /∗ ... ∗/ }; template class Y { /∗ ... ∗/ }; template class X { /∗ ... ∗/ }; template class Y;
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— end example ] A simple-template-id that names a class template explicit specialization that has been declared but not defined can be used exactly like the names of other incompletely-defined classes (3.9). [ Example: template class X; template class X;
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— end example ] A trailing template-argument can be left unspecified in the template-id naming an explicit function template specialization provided it can be deduced from the function argument type. [ Example: template class Array { /∗ ... ∗/ }; template void sort(Array& v); // explicit specialization for sort(Array&) // with deduced template-argument of type int template void sort(Array&);
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— end example ] An explicit specialization of a static data member of a template is a definition if the declaration includes an initializer; otherwise, it is a declaration. [ Note: The definition of a static data member of a template that requires default initialization must use a braced-init-list: template X Q::x; template X Q::x (); template X Q::x { };
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— end note ] A member or a member template of a class template may be explicitly specialized for a given implicit instantiation of the class template, even if the member or member template is defined in the class template definition. An explicit specialization of a member or member template is specified using the syntax for explicit specialization. [ Example: template struct A { void f(T); template void g1(T, X1); template void g2(T, X2); void h(T) { } }; // specialization template void A::f(int); // out of class member template definition template template void A::g1(T, X1) { } // member template specialization template template void A::g1(int, X1); //member template specialization template template void A::g1(int, char); template template void A::g2(int, char);
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— end example ] A member or a member template may be nested within many enclosing class templates. In an explicit specialization for such a member, the member declaration shall be preceded by a template for each enclosing class template that is explicitly specialized. [ Example: template class A { template class B { void mf(); }; }; template template class A::B;
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— end example ] In an explicit specialization declaration for a member of a class template or a member template that appears in namespace scope, the member template and some of its enclosing class templates may remain unspecialized, except that the declaration shall not explicitly specialize a class member template if its enclosing class templates are not explicitly specialized as well. In such explicit specialization declaration, the keyword template followed by a template-parameter-list shall be provided instead of the template preceding the explicit specialization declaration of the member. The types of the template-parameters in the template-parameter-list shall be the same as those specified in the primary template definition. [ Example: template class A { template class B { template void mf1(T3); void mf2(); }; }; template template class A::B { template void mf1(T); }; template template template void A::B::mf1(T t) { } template template void A::B::mf2() { } // ill-formed; B is specialized but // its enclosing class template A is not
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— end example ] A specialization of a member function template or member class template of a non-specialized class template is itself a template. An explicit specialization declaration shall not be a friend declaration. Default function arguments shall not be specified in a declaration or a definition for one of the following explicit specializations: — the explicit specialization of a function template; — the explicit specialization of a member function template; — the explicit specialization of a member function of a class template where the class template specialization to which the member function specialization belongs is implicitly instantiated. [ Note: Default function arguments may be specified in the declaration or definition of a member function of a class template specialization that is explicitly specialized. — end note ]
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A function instantiated from a function template is called a function template specialization; so is an explicit specialization of a function template. Template arguments can be explicitly specified when naming the function template specialization, deduced from the context (e.g., deduced from the function arguments in a call to the function template specialization, see 14.8.2), or obtained from default template arguments. Each function template specialization instantiated from a template has its own copy of any static variable. [ Example: template void f(T* p) { static T s; };
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void g(int a, char* b) { f(&a); // calls f(int*) f(&b); // calls f(char**) }
Here f(int*) has a static variable s of type int and f(char**) has a static variable s of type char*. — end example ]
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Template arguments can be specified when referring to a function template specialization by qualifying the function template name with the list of template-arguments in the same way as template-arguments are specified in uses of a class template specialization. [ Example: template void sort(Array& v); void f(Array& cv, Array& ci) { sort(cv); // sort(Array&) sort(ci); // sort(Array&) }
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// int convert(double) // char convert(double)
— end example ] A template argument list may be specified when referring to a specialization of a function template — when a function is called, — when the address of a function is taken, when a function initializes a reference to function, or when a pointer to member function is formed, — in an explicit specialization, — in an explicit instantiation, or — in a friend declaration.
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Trailing template arguments that can be deduced (14.8.2) or obtained from default template-arguments may be omitted from the list of explicit template-arguments. A trailing template parameter pack (14.5.3) not otherwise deduced will be deduced to an empty sequence of template arguments. If all of the template arguments can be deduced, they may all be omitted; in this case, the empty template argument list itself may also be omitted. In contexts where deduction is done and fails, or in contexts where deduction is not done, if a template argument list is specified and it, along with any default template arguments, identifies a single function template specialization, then the template-id is an lvalue for the function template specialization. [ Example: template X f(Y); template X g(Y); void h() { int i = f(5.6); // Y is deduced to be double int j = f(5.6); // ill-formed: X cannot be deduced f(f); // Y for outer f deduced to be // int (*)(bool) f(f); // ill-formed: f does not denote a
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— end example ] [ Note: An empty template argument list can be used to indicate that a given use refers to a specialization of a function template even when a normal (i.e., non-template) function is visible that would otherwise be used. For example: template int f(T); int f(int); int k = f(1); int l = f(1);
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— end note ] Template arguments that are present shall be specified in the declaration order of their corresponding template-parameters. The template argument list shall not specify more template-arguments than there are corresponding template-parameters unless one of the template-parameters is a template parameter pack. [ Example: template X f(Y,Z); template void f2(); void g() { f("aa",3.0); f("aa",3.0); // Z is deduced to be double f("aa",3.0); // Y is deduced to be const char*, and // Z is deduced to be double f("aa",3.0); // error: X cannot be deduced f2(); // OK }
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— end example ] Implicit conversions (Clause 4) will be performed on a function argument to convert it to the type of the corresponding function parameter if the parameter type contains no template-parameters that participate in template argument deduction. [ Note: Template parameters do not participate in template argument deduction if they are explicitly specified. For example, template void f(T); class Complex { Complex(double); }; void g() { f(1); }
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the correct syntactic form unless there is a function template with that name visible at the point of the call. If no such name is visible, the call is not syntactically well-formed and argument-dependent lookup does not apply. If some such name is visible, argument dependent lookup applies and additional function templates may be found in other namespaces. [ Example: namespace A { struct B { }; template void f(B); } namespace C { template void f(T t); } void g(A::B b) { f(b); // A::f(b); // C::f(b); // // using C::f; f(b); // // } 9
ill-formed: not a function call well-formed ill-formed; argument dependent lookup applies only to unqualified names well-formed because C::f is visible; then A::f is found by argument dependent lookup
— end example ] — end note ] Template argument deduction can extend the sequence of template arguments corresponding to a template parameter pack, even when the sequence contains explicitly specified template arguments. [ Example: template void f(Types ... values); void g() { f(0, 0, 0); }
// Types is deduced to the sequence int*, float*, int
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When a function template specialization is referenced, all of the template arguments shall have values. The values can be explicitly specified or, in some cases, be deduced from the use or obtained from default template-arguments. [ Example: void f(Array& cv, Array& ci) { sort(cv); // calls sort(Array&) sort(ci); // calls sort(Array&) }
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After this substitution is performed, the function parameter type adjustments described in 8.3.5 are performed. [ Example: A parameter type of “void ()(const int, int[5])” becomes “void(*)(int,int*)”. — end example ] [ Note: A top-level qualifier in a function parameter declaration does not affect the function type but still affects the type of the function parameter variable within the function. — end note ] [ Example: template void f(T t); template void g(const X x); template void h(Z, Z*); int main() { // #1: function type is f(int), t is non const f(1); // #2: function type is f(int), t is const f(1); // #3: function type is g(int), x is const g(1); // #4: function type is g(int), x is const g(1); // #5: function type is h(int, const int*) h(1,0); }
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— end example ] When all template arguments have been deduced or obtained from default template arguments, all uses of template parameters in the template parameter list of the template and the function type are replaced with the corresponding deduced or default argument values. If the substitution results in an invalid type, as described above, type deduction fails. At certain points in the template argument deduction process it is necessary to take a function type that makes use of template parameters and replace those template parameters with the corresponding template arguments. This is done at the beginning of template argument deduction when any explicitly specified template arguments are substituted into the function type, and again at the end of template argument deduction when any template arguments that were deduced or obtained from default arguments are substituted. The substitution occurs in all types and expressions that are used in the function type and in template parameter declarations. The expressions include not only constant expressions such as those that appear in array bounds or as nontype template arguments but also general expressions (i.e., non-constant expressions) inside sizeof, decltype, and other contexts that allow non-constant expressions. [ Note: The equivalent substitution in exception specifications is done only when the function is instantiated, at which point a program is ill-formed if the substitution results in an invalid type or expression. — end note ] If a substitution results in an invalid type or expression, type deduction fails. An invalid type or expression is one that would be ill-formed if written using the substituted arguments. [ Note: Access checking is done as part of the substitution process. — end note ] Only invalid types and expressions in the immediate context of the function type and its template parameter types can result in a deduction failure. [ Note: The evaluation of the substituted types and expressions can result in side effects such as the instantiation of class template specializations and/or function template specializations, the generation of implicitly-defined functions, etc. Such side effects are not in the “immediate context” and can result in the program being ill-formed. — end note ] [ Example: struct X { }; struct Y { Y(X){} }; template auto f(T t1, T t2) -> decltype(t1 + t2); // #1 X f(Y, Y); // #2 X x1, x2; X x3 = f(x1, x2);
// deduction fails on #1 (cannot add X+X), calls #2
— end example ] [ Note: Type deduction may fail for the following reasons: — Attempting to instantiate a pack expansion containing multiple parameter packs of differing lengths. — Attempting to create an array with an element type that is void, a function type, a reference type, or an abstract class type, or attempting to create an array with a size that is zero or negative. [ Example: template int f(T[5]); int I = f(0); int j = f(0); // invalid array
— end example ] — Attempting to use a type that is not a class or enumeration type in a qualified name. [ Example: template int f(typename T::B*); int i = f(0);
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— end example ] — Attempting to use a type in a nested-name-specifier of a qualified-id when that type does not contain the specified member, or — the specified member is not a type where a type is required, or — the specified member is not a template where a template is required, or — the specified member is not a non-type where a non-type is required. [ Example: template struct X { }; template struct Z { }; template void f(typename T::Y*){} template void g(X*){} template void h(Z*){} struct A {}; struct B { int Y; }; struct C { typedef int N; }; struct D { typedef int TT; }; int main() { // Deduction fails in each of these cases: f(0); // A does not contain a member Y f(0); // The Y member of B is not a type g(0); // The N member of C is not a non-type h(0); // The TT member of D is not a template }
— end example ] — Attempting to create a pointer to reference type. — Attempting to create a reference to void. — Attempting to create “pointer to member of T” when T is not a class type. [ Example: template int f(int T::*); int i = f(0);
— end example ] — Attempting to give an invalid type to a non-type template parameter. [ Example: template template struct X int i0 =
struct S {}; int f(S*); {}; f(0);
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int f(int); int f(int); f(0); // ambiguous f(0); // ambiguous
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Template argument deduction is done by comparing each function template parameter type (call it P) with the type of the corresponding argument of the call (call it A) as described below. If removing references and cv-qualifiers from P gives std::initializer_list
for some P 0 and the argument is an initializer list (8.5.4), then deduction is performed instead for each element of the initializer list, taking P 0 as a function template parameter type and the initializer element as its argument. Otherwise, an initializer list argument causes the parameter to be considered a non-deduced context (14.8.2.5). [ Example: template void f(std::initializer_list); f({1,2,3}); // T deduced to int f({1,"asdf"}); // error: T deduced to both int and const char* template void g(T); g({1,2,3}); // error: no argument deduced for T
— end example ] For a function parameter pack that occurs at the end of the parameter-declaration-list, the type A of each remaining argument of the call is compared with the type P of the declarator-id of the function parameter pack. Each comparison deduces template arguments for subsequent positions in the template parameter packs expanded by the function parameter pack. For a function parameter pack that does not occur at the end of the parameter-declaration-list, the type of the parameter pack is a non-deduced context. [ Example: template void f(Types& ...); template void g(T1, Types ...); void h(int x, float& y) { const int z = x; f(x, y, z); // Types is deduced to int, float, const int g(x, y, z); // T1 is deduced to int; Types is deduced to float, int }
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— end example ] If P is not a reference type: — If A is an array type, the pointer type produced by the array-to-pointer standard conversion (4.2) is used in place of A for type deduction; otherwise, — If A is a function type, the pointer type produced by the function-to-pointer standard conversion (4.3) is used in place of A for type deduction; otherwise, — If A is a cv-qualified type, the top level cv-qualifiers of A’s type are ignored for type deduction.
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// // // //
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— end example ] In general, the deduction process attempts to find template argument values that will make the deduced A identical to A (after the type A is transformed as described above). However, there are three cases that allow a difference: — If the original P is a reference type, the deduced A (i.e., the type referred to by the reference) can be more cv-qualified than the transformed A. — The transformed A can be another pointer or pointer to member type that can be converted to the deduced A via a qualification conversion (4.4). — If P is a class and P has the form simple-template-id, then the transformed A can be a derived class of the deduced A. Likewise, if P is a pointer to a class of the form simple-template-id, the transformed A can be a pointer to a derived class pointed to by the deduced A.
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[ Example: // Only one function of an overload set matches the call so the function // parameter is a deduced context. template int f(T (*p)(T)); int g(int); int g(char); int i = f(g); // calls f(int (*)(int))
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[ Example: // Ambiguous deduction causes the second function parameter to be a // non-deduced context. template int f(T, T (*p)(T)); int g(int); char g(char); int i = f(1, g); // calls f(int, int (*)(int))
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[ Example: // The overload set contains a template, causing the second function // parameter to be a non-deduced context. template int f(T, T (*p)(T)); char g(char); template T g(T); int i = f(1, g); // calls f(int, int (*)(int))
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If A is a cv-qualified type, the top level cv-qualifiers of A’s type are ignored for type deduction. If A is a reference type, the type referred to by A is used for type deduction. In general, the deduction process attempts to find template argument values that will make the deduced A identical to A. However, there are two cases that allow a difference: — If the original A is a reference type, A can be more cv-qualified than the deduced A (i.e., the type referred to by the reference) — The deduced A can be another pointer or pointer to member type that can be converted to A via a qualification conversion.
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// T is deduced as int, not const int
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Template argument deduction is done by comparing certain types associated with the two function templates being compared. Two sets of types are used to determine the partial ordering. For each of the templates involved there is the original function type and the transformed function type. [ Note: The creation of the transformed type is described in 14.5.6.2. — end note ] The deduction process uses the transformed type as the argument template and the original type of the other template as the parameter template. This process is done twice for each type involved in the partial ordering comparison: once using the transformed template-1 as the argument template and template-2 as the parameter template and again using the transformed template-2 as the argument template and template-1 as the parameter template. The types used to determine the ordering depend on the context in which the partial ordering is done: — In the context of a function call, the types used are those function parameter types for which the function call has arguments.142 — In the context of a call to a conversion operator, the return types of the conversion function templates are used. — In other contexts (14.5.6.2) the function template’s function type is used. 142) Default arguments are not considered to be arguments in this context; they only become arguments after a function has been selected.
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Each type nominated above from the parameter template and the corresponding type from the argument template are used as the types of P and A. Before the partial ordering is done, certain transformations are performed on the types used for partial ordering: — If P is a reference type, P is replaced by the type referred to. — If A is a reference type, A is replaced by the type referred to.
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// // // //
// #1 // #2 // #3
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— end example ] If, for a given type, deduction succeeds in both directions (i.e., the types are identical after the transformations above) and both P and A were reference types (before being replaced with the type referred to above): — if the type from the argument template was an lvalue reference and the type from the parameter template was not, the argument type is considered to be more specialized than the other; otherwise, — if the type from the argument template is more cv-qualified than the type from the parameter template (as described above), the argument type is considered to be more specialized than the other; otherwise, — neither type is more specialized than the other.
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— end example ] [ Note: Partial ordering of function templates containing template parameter packs is independent of the number of deduced arguments for those template parameter packs. — end note ] [ Example: template void g(Tuple);
g(Tuple()); g(Tuple()); g(Tuple()); g(Tuple());
// // // //
calls calls calls calls
// #1 // #2 // #3
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Template arguments can be deduced in several different contexts, but in each case a type that is specified in terms of template parameters (call it P) is compared with an actual type (call it A), and an attempt is made to find template argument values (a type for a type parameter, a value for a non-type parameter, or a template for a template parameter) that will make P, after substitution of the deduced values (call it the deduced A), compatible with A. In some cases, the deduction is done using a single set of types P and A, in other cases, there will be a set of corresponding types P and A. Type deduction is done independently for each P/A pair, and the deduced template argument values are then combined. If type deduction cannot be done for any P/A pair, or if for any pair the deduction leads to more than one possible set of deduced values, or if different pairs yield different deduced values, or if any template argument remains neither deduced nor explicitly specified, template argument deduction fails. A given type P can be composed from a number of other types, templates, and non-type values: — A function type includes the types of each of the function parameters and the return type. — A pointer to member type includes the type of the class object pointed to and the type of the member pointed to. — A type that is a specialization of a class template (e.g., A) includes the types, templates, and non-type values referenced by the template argument list of the specialization. — An array type includes the array element type and the value of the array bound.
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— A non-type template argument or an array bound in which a subexpression references a template parameter. — A template parameter used in the parameter type of a function parameter that has a default argument that is being used in the call for which argument deduction is being done. — A function parameter for which argument deduction cannot be done because the associated function argument is a function, or a set of overloaded functions (13.4), and one or more of the following apply: — more than one function matches the function parameter type (resulting in an ambiguous deduction), or — no function matches the function parameter type, or — the set of functions supplied as an argument contains one or more function templates. — A function parameter for which the associated argument is an initializer list (8.5.4) but the parameter does not have std::initializer_list or reference to possibly cv-qualified std::initializer_list type. [ Example: template void g(T); g({1,2,3}); // error: no argument deduced for T
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Here is an example where two template arguments are deduced from a single function parameter/argument pair. This can lead to conflicts that cause type deduction to fail: template void f(
T (*)( T, U, U )
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int g1( int, float, float); char g2( int, float, float); int g3( int, char, float); void r() { f(g1); f(g2); f(g3); }
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Here is an example where a qualification conversion applies between the argument type on the function call and the deduced template argument type: template void f(const T*) { } int *p; void s() { f(p); // f(const int*) }
Here is an example where the template argument is used to instantiate a derived class type of the corresponding function parameter type: template template struct D2 : public template void t() { D d; D2 d2; f(d); f(d2); } 8
struct B { }; struct D : public B {}; B {}; void f(B&){}
// calls f(B&) // calls f(B&)
— end example ] A template type argument T, a template template argument TT or a template non-type argument i can be deduced if P and A have one of the following forms: T cv-list T T* T& T&& T[integer-constant ] template-name (where template-name type (T) T() T(T) T type ::* type T::* T T::* T (type ::*)() type (T::*)() type (type ::*)(T) type (T::*)(T) T (type ::*)(T) T (T::*)() T (T::*)(T) type [i] template-name (where template-name TT TT TT
refers to a class template)
refers to a class template)
where (T) represents a parameter-type-list where at least one parameter type contains a T, and () represents a parameter-type-list where no parameter type contains a T. Similarly, represents template argument lists where at least one argument contains a T, represents template argument lists where at least one argument contains an i and represents template argument lists where no argument contains a T or an i. § 14.8.2.5
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If P has a form that contains or , then each argument Pi of the respective template argument list P is compared with the corresponding argument Ai of the corresponding template argument list of A. If the template argument list of P contains a pack expansion that is not the last template argument, the entire template argument list is a non-deduced context. If Pi is a pack expansion, then the pattern of Pi is compared with each remaining argument in the template argument list of A. Each comparison deduces template arguments for subsequent positions in the template parameter packs expanded by Pi . During partial ordering (14.8.2.4), if Ai was originally a pack expansion: — if P does not contain a template argument corresponding to Ai then Ai is ignored; — otherwise, if Pi is not a pack expansion, template argument deduction fails. [ Example: template class s; // both
S; // #1 S { }; // #2 S { }; // #3 #2 and #3 match; #3 is more specialized
template struct A { }; // #1 template struct A { }; // #2 template struct A { }; // #3 template struct A; // selects #2 10
— end example ] Similarly, if P has a form that contains (T), then each parameter type Pi of the respective parameter-typelist of P is compared with the corresponding parameter type Ai of the corresponding parameter-type-list of A. If P and A are function types that originated from deduction when taking the address of a function template (14.8.2.2) or when deducing template arguments from a function declaration (14.8.2.6) and Pi and Ai are parameters of the top-level parameter-type-list of P and A, respectively, Pi is adjusted if it is an rvalue reference to a cv-unqualified template parameter and Ai is an lvalue reference, in which case the type of Pi is changed to be the template parameter type (i.e., T&& is changed to simply T). [ Note: As a result, when Pi is T&& and Ai is X&, the adjusted Pi will be T, causing T to be deduced as X&. — end note ] [ Example: template void f(T&&); template void f(int&) { } // template void f(int&&) { } // void g(int i) { f(i); // f(0); // }
#1 #2 calls f(int&), i.e., #1 calls f(int&&), i.e., #2
— end example ] If the parameter-declaration corresponding to Pi is a function parameter pack, then the type of its declarator-id is compared with each remaining parameter type in the parameter-type-list of A. Each comparison deduces template arguments for subsequent positions in the template parameter packs expanded by the function parameter pack. During partial ordering (14.8.2.4), if Ai was originally a function parameter pack: — if P does not contain a function parameter type corresponding to Ai then Ai is ignored; — otherwise, if Pi is not a function parameter pack, template argument deduction fails. [ Example: template void f(T*, U...) { } template void f(T) { } template void f(int*); // selects #1
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— end example ] These forms can be used in the same way as T is for further composition of types. [ Example: X (*)(char[6])
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where type is X and T is char[6]. — end example ] Template arguments cannot be deduced from function arguments involving constructs other than the ones specified above. A template type argument cannot be deduced from the type of a non-type template-argument. [ Example: template void f(double a[10][i]); int v[10][20]; f(v); // error: argument for template-parameter T cannot be deduced
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— end example ] [ Note: Except for reference and pointer types, a major array bound is not part of a function parameter type and cannot be deduced from an argument: template void f1(int a[10][i]); template void f2(int a[i][20]); template void f3(int (&a)[i][20]); void g() { int v[10][20]; f1(v); f1(v); f2(v); f2(v); f3(v); }
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If, in the declaration of a function template with a non-type template parameter, the non-type template parameter is used in a subexpression in the function parameter list, the expression is a non-deduced context as specified above. [ Example: template class A { /∗ ... ∗/ }; template void g(A); template void f(A, A); void k() { A a1; A a2; g(a1); // error: deduction fails for expression i+1 g(a1); // OK f(a1, a2); // OK }
— end example ] — end note ] [ Note: Template parameters do not participate in template argument deduction if they are used only in non-deduced contexts. For example, template T deduce(typename A::X x,
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— end note ] If, in the declaration of a function template with a non-type template-parameter, the non-type templateparameter is used in an expression in the function parameter-list and, if the corresponding template-argument is deduced, the template-argument type shall match the type of the template-parameter exactly, except that a template-argument deduced from an array bound may be of any integral type.143 [ Example: template class A { /∗ ... ∗/ }; template void f(A); void k1() { A a; f(a); // error: deduction fails for conversion from int to short f(a); // OK } template class B { }; template void g(B); void k2() { B b; g(b); // OK: cv-qualifiers are ignored on template parameter types }
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— end example ] A template-argument can be deduced from a function, pointer to function, or pointer to member function type. [ Example: template void f(void(*)(T,int)); template void foo(T,int); void g(int,int); void g(char,int); void h(int,int,int); void h(char,int); int m() { f(&g); // error: ambiguous f(&h); // OK: void h(char,int) is a unique match f(&foo); // error: type deduction fails because foo is a template }
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— end example ] A template type-parameter cannot be deduced from the type of a function default argument. [ Example: template void f(T = 5, T = 7); 143) Although the template-argument corresponding to a template-parameter of type bool may be deduced from an array bound, the resulting value will always be true because the array bound will be non-zero.
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// OK: call f(1,7) // error: cannot deduce T // OK: call f(5,7)
— end example ] The template-argument corresponding to a template template-parameter is deduced from the type of the template-argument of a class template specialization used in the argument list of a function call. [ Example: template struct A { }; template void f(A) { } template struct B { }; A ab; f(ab); // calls f(A)
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— end example ] [ Note: Template argument deduction involving parameter packs (14.5.3) can deduce zero or more arguments for each parameter pack. — end note ] [ Example: template struct X { }; template struct X { }; template struct Y { }; template struct Y { }; template int f(void (*)(Types ...)); void g(int, float); X x1; X x2; X x3; Y y1; Y y2; Y y3; int fv = f(g);
// // // // // // //
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In a declaration whose declarator-id refers to a specialization of a function template, template argument deduction is performed to identify the specialization to which the declaration refers. Specifically, this is done for explicit instantiations (14.7.2), explicit specializations (14.7.3), and certain friend declarations (14.5.4). This is also done to determine whether a deallocation function template specialization matches a placement operator new (3.7.4.2, 5.3.4). In all these cases, P is the type of the function template being considered as a potential match and A is either the function type from the declaration or the type of the deallocation function that would match the placement operator new as described in 5.3.4. The deduction is done as described in 14.8.2.5. If, for the set of function templates so considered, there is either no match or more than one match after partial ordering has been considered (14.5.6.2), deduction fails and, in the declaration cases, the program is ill-formed.
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Overload resolution
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A function template can be overloaded either by (non-template) functions of its name or by (other) function templates of the same name. When a call to that name is written (explicitly, or implicitly using the operator notation), template argument deduction (14.8.2) and checking of any explicit template arguments (14.3) are performed for each function template to find the template argument values (if any) that can be used with § 14.8.3
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that function template to instantiate a function template specialization that can be invoked with the call arguments. For each function template, if the argument deduction and checking succeeds, the templatearguments (deduced and/or explicit) are used to synthesize the declaration of a single function template specialization which is added to the candidate functions set to be used in overload resolution. If, for a given function template, argument deduction fails, no such function is added to the set of candidate functions for that template. The complete set of candidate functions includes all the synthesized declarations and all of the non-template overloaded functions of the same name. The synthesized declarations are treated like any other functions in the remainder of overload resolution, except as explicitly noted in 13.3.3.144 [ Example: template T max(T a, T b) { return a>b?a:b; } void f(int a, int b, char c, char d) { int m1 = max(a,b); // max(int a, int b) char m2 = max(c,d); // max(char a, char b) int m3 = max(a,c); // error: cannot generate max(int,char) } 2
Adding the non-template function int max(int,int);
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to the example above would resolve the third call, by providing a function that could be called for max(a,c) after using the standard conversion of char to int for c. Here is an example involving conversions on a function argument involved in template-argument deduction: template struct B { /∗ ... ∗/ }; template struct D : public B { /∗ ... ∗/ }; template void f(B&); void g(B& bi, D& di) { f(bi); // f(bi) f(di); // f((B&)di) }
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// #1 // #2
void h(int* pi, int i, char c) { f(pi,i); // #1: f(pi,i) f(pi,c); // #2: f(pi,c) f(i,c); f(i,i);
// #2: f(i,c); // #2: f(i,char(i))
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— end example ] Only the signature of a function template specialization is needed to enter the specialization in a set of candidate functions. Therefore only the function template declaration is needed to resolve a call for which a template specialization is a candidate. [ Example: 144) The parameters of function template specializations contain no template parameter types. The set of conversions allowed on deduced arguments is limited, because the argument deduction process produces function templates with parameters that either match the call arguments exactly or differ only in ways that can be bridged by the allowed limited conversions. Nondeduced arguments allow the full range of conversions. Note also that 13.3.3 specifies that a non-template function will be given preference over a template specialization if the two functions are otherwise equally good candidates for an overload match.
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// declaration
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The call of f is well-formed even if the template f is only declared and not defined at the point of the call. The program will be ill-formed unless a specialization for f, either implicitly or explicitly generated, is present in some translation unit. — end example ]
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Exception handling
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Exception handling provides a way of transferring control and information from a point in the execution of a thread to an exception handler associated with a point previously passed by the execution. A handler will be invoked only by a throw-expression invoked in code executed in the handler’s try block or in functions called from the handler’s try block . try-block: try compound-statement handler-seq function-try-block: try ctor-initializeropt compound-statement handler-seq handler-seq: handler handler-seqopt handler: catch ( exception-declaration ) compound-statement exception-declaration: attribute-specifier-seqopt type-specifier-seq declarator attribute-specifier-seqopt type-specifier-seq abstract-declaratoropt ... throw-expression: throw assignment-expressionopt
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The optional attribute-specifier-seq in an exception-declaration appertains to the formal parameter of the catch clause (15.3). A try-block is a statement (Clause 6). A throw-expression is of type void. Code that executes a throwexpression is said to “throw an exception;” code that subsequently gets control is called a “handler.” [ Note: Within this Clause “try block” is taken to mean both try-block and function-try-block. — end note ] A goto or switch statement shall not be used to transfer control into a try block or into a handler. [ Example: void f() { goto l1; goto l2; try { goto l1; goto l2; l1: ; } catch (...) { l2: ; goto l1; goto l2; } }
// Ill-formed // Ill-formed // OK // Ill-formed
// Ill-formed // OK
— end example ] A goto, break, return, or continue statement can be used to transfer control out of a try block or handler. When this happens, each variable declared in the try block will be destroyed in the context that directly contains its declaration. [ Example: lab: try { T1 t1; try { T2 t2; if (condition )
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goto lab; } catch(...) { /∗ handler 2 ∗/ } } catch(...) { /∗ handler 1 ∗/ }
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— end example ]
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Throwing an exception
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Throwing an exception transfers control to a handler. An object is passed and the type of that object determines which handlers can catch it. [ Example: throw "Help!";
can be caught by a handler of const char* type: try { // ... } catch(const char* p) { // handle character string exceptions here }
and class Overflow { public: Overflow(char,double,double); }; void f(double x) { throw Overflow(’+’,x,3.45e107); }
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— end example ] When an exception is thrown, control is transferred to the nearest handler with a matching type (15.3); “nearest” means the handler for which the compound-statement or ctor-initializer following the try keyword was most recently entered by the thread of control and not yet exited. A throw-expression copy-initializes (8.5) a temporary object, called the exception object, the type of which is determined by removing any top-level cv-qualifiers from the static type of the operand of throw and adjusting the type from “array of T” or “function returning T” to “pointer to T” or “pointer to function returning T”, respectively. The temporary is an lvalue and is used to initialize the variable named in the matching handler (15.3). If the type of the exception object would be an incomplete type or a pointer to an incomplete type other than (possibly cv-qualified) void the program is ill-formed. Except for these restrictions and the restrictions on type matching mentioned in 15.3, the operand of throw is treated exactly as a function argument in a call (5.2.2) or the operand of a return statement. The memory for the exception object is allocated in an unspecified way, except as noted in 3.7.4.1. If a handler exits by rethrowing, control is passed to another handler for the same exception. The exception object is destroyed after either the last remaining active handler for the exception exits by any means other than rethrowing, or the last object of type std::exception_ptr (18.8.5) that refers to the exception object is destroyed, whichever is later. In the former case, the destruction occurs when the handler exits, immediately after the destruction of the object declared in the exception-declaration in the handler, if any. In the latter case, the destruction occurs before the destructor of std::exception_ptr returns. The implementation may then deallocate the memory for the exception object; any such deallocation is done in an unspecified way. [ Note: an exception thrown by a throw-expression does not propagate to other threads unless caught, stored, and rethrown using appropriate library functions; see 18.8.5 and 30.6. — end note ] When the thrown object is a class object, the constructor selected for the copy-initialization and the destructor shall be accessible, even if the copy/move operation is elided (12.8). An exception is considered caught when a handler for that exception becomes active (15.3). [ Note: An exception can have active handlers and still be considered uncaught if it is rethrown. — end note ] If the exception handling mechanism, after completing evaluation of the expression to be thrown but before the exception is caught, calls a function that exits via an exception, std::terminate is called (15.5.1). [ Example: struct C { C() { } C(const C&) { throw 0; } }; int main() { try { throw C(); } catch(C) { } }
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— end example ] A throw-expression with no operand rethrows the currently handled exception (15.3). The exception is reactivated with the existing temporary; no new temporary exception object is created. The exception is no longer considered to be caught; therefore, the value of std::uncaught_exception() will again be true. [ Example: code that must be executed because of an exception yet cannot completely handle the exception can be written like this: § 15.1
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— end example ] If no exception is presently being handled, executing a throw-expression with no operand calls std:: terminate() (15.5.1).
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As control passes from a throw-expression to a handler, destructors are invoked for all automatic objects constructed since the try block was entered. The automatic objects are destroyed in the reverse order of the completion of their construction. An object of any storage duration whose initialization or destruction is terminated by an exception will have destructors executed for all of its fully constructed subobjects (excluding the variant members of a union-like class), that is, for subobjects for which the principal constructor (12.6.2) has completed execution and the destructor has not yet begun execution. Similarly, if the non-delegating constructor for an object has completed execution and a delegating constructor for that object exits with an exception, the object’s destructor will be invoked. If the object was allocated in a new-expression, the matching deallocation function (3.7.4.2, 5.3.4, 12.5), if any, is called to free the storage occupied by the object. The process of calling destructors for automatic objects constructed on the path from a try block to a throw-expression is called “stack unwinding.” If a destructor called during stack unwinding exits with an exception, std::terminate is called (15.5.1). [ Note: So destructors should generally catch exceptions and not let them propagate out of the destructor. — end note ]
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Handling an exception
[except.handle]
The exception-declaration in a handler describes the type(s) of exceptions that can cause that handler to be entered. The exception-declaration shall not denote an incomplete type, an abstract class type, or an rvalue reference type. The exception-declaration shall not denote a pointer or reference to an incomplete type, other than void*, const void*, volatile void*, or const volatile void*. A handler of type “array of T” or “function returning T” is adjusted to be of type “pointer to T” or “pointer to function returning T”, respectively. A handler is a match for an exception object of type E if — The handler is of type cv T or cv T& and E and T are the same type (ignoring the top-level cv-qualifiers), or — the handler is of type cv T or cv T& and T is an unambiguous public base class of E, or — the handler is of type cv T or const T& where T is a pointer type and E is a pointer type that can be converted to T by either or both of — a standard pointer conversion (4.10) not involving conversions to pointers to private or protected or ambiguous classes — a qualification conversion — the handler is of type cv T or const T& where T is a pointer or pointer to member type and E is std::nullptr_t. [ Note: A throw-expression whose operand is an integral constant expression of integer type that evaluates to zero does not match a handler of pointer or pointer to member type. — end note ] [ Example: § 15.3
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Matherr { /∗ ... ∗/ virtual void vf(); }; Overflow: public Matherr { /∗ ... ∗/ }; Underflow: public Matherr { /∗ ... ∗/ }; Zerodivide: public Matherr { /∗ ... ∗/ };
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Here, the Overflow handler will catch exceptions of type Overflow and the Matherr handler will catch exceptions of type Matherr and of all types publicly derived from Matherr including exceptions of type Underflow and Zerodivide. — end example ] The handlers for a try block are tried in order of appearance. That makes it possible to write handlers that can never be executed, for example by placing a handler for a derived class after a handler for a corresponding base class. A ... in a handler’s exception-declaration functions similarly to ... in a function parameter declaration; it specifies a match for any exception. If present, a ... handler shall be the last handler for its try block. If no match is found among the handlers for a try block, the search for a matching handler continues in a dynamically surrounding try block of the same thread. A handler is considered active when initialization is complete for the formal parameter (if any) of the catch clause. [ Note: The stack will have been unwound at that point. — end note ] Also, an implicit handler is considered active when std::terminate() or std::unexpected() is entered due to a throw. A handler is no longer considered active when the catch clause exits or when std::unexpected() exits after being entered due to a throw. The exception with the most recently activated handler that is still active is called the currently handled exception. If no matching handler is found, the function std::terminate() is called; whether or not the stack is unwound before this call to std::terminate() is implementation-defined (15.5.1). Referring to any non-static member or base class of an object in the handler for a function-try-block of a constructor or destructor for that object results in undefined behavior. The fully constructed base classes and members of an object shall be destroyed before entering the handler of a function-try-block of a constructor for that object. Similarly, if a delegating constructor for an object exits with an exception after the non-delegating constructor for that object has completed execution, the object’s destructor shall be executed before entering the handler of a function-try-block of a constructor for that object. The base classes and non-variant members of an object shall be destroyed before entering the handler of a function-try-block of a destructor for that object (12.4). The scope and lifetime of the parameters of a function or constructor extend into the handlers of a functiontry-block. Exceptions thrown in destructors of objects with static storage duration or in constructors of namespacescope objects with static storage duration are not caught by a function-try-block on main(). Exceptions thrown in destructors of objects with thread storage duration or in constructors of namespace-scope objects with thread storage duration are not caught by a function-try-block on the initial function of the thread. If a return statement appears in a handler of the function-try-block of a constructor, the program is ill-formed. The currently handled exception is rethrown if control reaches the end of a handler of the function-try-block of a constructor or destructor. Otherwise, a function returns when control reaches the end of a handler for
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the function-try-block (6.6.3). Flowing off the end of a function-try-block is equivalent to a return with no value; this results in undefined behavior in a value-returning function (6.6.3). If the exception-declaration specifies a name, it declares a variable which is copy-initialized (8.5) from the exception object. If the exception-declaration denotes an object type but does not specify a name, a temporary (12.2) is copy-initialized (8.5) from the exception object. The lifetime of the variable or temporary ends when the handler exits, after the destruction of any automatic objects initialized within the handler. When the handler declares a non-constant object, any changes to that object will not affect the temporary object that was initialized by execution of the throw-expression. When the handler declares a reference to a non-constant object, any changes to the referenced object are changes to the temporary object initialized when the throw-expression was executed and will have effect should that object be rethrown.
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Exception specifications
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A function declaration lists exceptions that its function might directly or indirectly throw by using an exception-specification as a suffix of its declarator. exception-specification: dynamic-exception-specification noexcept-specification dynamic-exception-specification: throw ( type-id-listopt ) type-id-list: type-id ...opt type-id-list , type-id ...opt noexcept-specification: noexcept ( constant-expression ) noexcept
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— end example ] A type denoted in an exception-specification shall not denote an incomplete type other than a class currently being defined. A type denoted in an exception-specification shall not denote a pointer or reference to an incomplete type, other than cv void* or a pointer or reference to a class currently being defined. A type cv T, “array of T”, or “function returning T” denoted in an exception-specification is adjusted to type T, “pointer to T”, or “pointer to function returning T”, respectively. Two exception-specifications are compatible if: — both are non-throwing (see below), regardless of their form, — both have the form noexcept(constant-expression) and the constant-expressions are equivalent, or — both are dynamic-exception-specifications that have the same set of adjusted types.
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have a compatible exception-specification. If any declaration of a pointer to function, reference to function, or pointer to member function has an exception-specification, all occurrences of that declaration shall have a compatible exception-specification In an explicit instantiation an exception-specification may be specified, but is not required. If an exception-specification is specified in an explicit instantiation directive, it shall be compatible with the exception-specifications of other declarations of that function. A diagnostic is required only if the exception-specifications are not compatible within a single translation unit. If a virtual function has an exception-specification, all declarations, including the definition, of any function that overrides that virtual function in any derived class shall only allow exceptions that are allowed by the exception-specification of the base class virtual function. [ Example: struct B { virtual void f() throw (int, double); virtual void g(); }; struct D: B { void f(); void g() throw (int); };
// ill-formed // OK
The declaration of D::f is ill-formed because it allows all exceptions, whereas B::f allows only int and double. — end example ] A similar restriction applies to assignment to and initialization of pointers to functions, pointers to member functions, and references to functions: the target entity shall allow at least the exceptions allowed by the source value in the assignment or initialization. [ Example: class A { /∗ ... ∗/ }; void (*pf1)(); // no exception specification void (*pf2)() throw(A); void f() { pf1 = pf2; pf2 = pf1; } 6
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— end example ] In such an assignment or initialization, exception-specifications on return types and parameter types shall be compatible. In other assignments or initializations, exception-specifications shall be compatible. An exception-specification can include the same type more than once and can include classes that are related by inheritance, even though doing so is redundant. [ Note: An exception-specification can also include the class std::bad_exception (18.8.2). — end note ] A function is said to allow an exception of type E if the constant-expression in its noexcept-specification evaluates to false or its dynamic-exception-specification contains a type T for which a handler of type T would be a match (15.3) for an exception of type E. Whenever an exception is thrown and the search for a handler (15.3) encounters the outermost block of a function with an exception-specification that does not allow the exception, then, — if the exception-specification is a dynamic-exception-specification, the function std::unexpected() is called (15.5.2), — otherwise, the function std::terminate() is called (15.5.1). [ Example: class X { }; class Y { }; class Z: public X { };
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class W { }; void f() throw (X, Y) { int n = 0; if (n) throw X(); if (n) throw Z(); throw W(); }
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— end example ] [ Note: A function can have multiple declarations with different non-throwing exception-specifications; for this purpose, the one on the function definition is used. — end note ] The function unexpected() may throw an exception that will satisfy the exception-specification for which it was invoked, and in this case the search for another handler will continue at the call of the function with this exception-specification (see 15.5.2), or it may call std::terminate(). An implementation shall not reject an expression merely because when executed it throws or might throw an exception that the containing function does not allow. [ Example: extern void f() throw(X, Y); void g() throw(X) { f(); }
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the call to f is well-formed even though when called, f might throw exception Y that g does not allow. — end example ] A function with no exception-specification or with an exception-specification of the form noexcept(constantexpression ) where the constant-expression yields false allows all exceptions. An exception-specification is non-throwing if it is of the form throw(), noexcept, or noexcept(constant-expression ) where the constantexpression yields true. A function with a non-throwing exception-specification does not allow any exceptions. An exception-specification is not considered part of a function’s type. An inheriting constructor (12.9) and an implicitly declared special member function (Clause 12) have an exception-specification. If f is an inheriting constructor or an implicitly declared default constructor, copy constructor, move constructor, destructor, copy assignment operator, or move assignment operator, its implicit exception-specification specifies the type-id T if and only if T is allowed by the exception-specification of a function directly invoked by f’s implicit definition; f allows all exceptions if any function it directly invokes allows all exceptions, and f has the exception-specification noexcept(true) if every function it directly invokes allows no exceptions. [ Note: An instantiation of an inheriting constructor template has an implied exception-specification as if it were a non-template inheriting constructor. — end note ] [ Example: struct A { A(); A(const A&) throw(); A(A&&) throw(); ~A() throw(X); }; struct B { B() throw(); B(const B&) throw(); B(B&&) throw(Y); ~B() throw(Y); }; struct D : public A, public B { // Implicit declaration of D::D(); // Implicit declaration of D::D(const D&) noexcept(true);
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// Implicit declaration of D::D(D&&) throw(Y); // Implicit declaration of D::∼D() throw(X, Y); };
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Furthermore, if A::˜A() or B::˜B() were virtual, D::˜D() would not be as restrictive as that of A::˜A, and the program would be ill-formed since a function that overrides a virtual function from a base class shall have an exception-specification at least as restrictive as that in the base class. — end example ] A deallocation function (3.7.4.2) with no explicit exception-specification is treated as if it were specified with noexcept(true). In a dynamic-exception-specification, a type-id followed by an ellipsis is a pack expansion (14.5.3). [ Note: The use of dynamic-exception-specifications is deprecated (see Annex D). — end note ]
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Special functions
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The std::terminate() function
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— when the exception handling mechanism cannot find a handler for a thrown exception (15.3), or — when the search for a handler (15.3) encounters the outermost block of a function with a noexceptspecification that does not allow the exception (15.4), or — when the destruction of an object during stack unwinding (15.2) terminates by throwing an exception, or — when initialization of a non-local variable with static or thread storage duration (3.6.2) exits via an exception, or — when destruction of an object with static or thread storage duration exits via an exception (3.6.3), or — when execution of a function registered with std::atexit or std::at_quick_exit exits via an exception (18.5), or — when a throw-expression with no operand attempts to rethrow an exception and no exception is being handled (15.1), or — when std::unexpected throws an exception which is not allowed by the previously violated dynamicexception-specification, and std::bad_exception is not included in that dynamic-exception-specification (15.5.2), or — when the implementation’s default unexpected exception handler is called (D.11.1), or — when the function std::nested_exception::rethrow_nested is called for an object that has captured no exception (18.8.6), or — when execution of the initial function of a thread exits via an exception (30.3.1.2), or
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— when the destructor or the copy assignment operator is invoked on an object of type std::thread that refers to a joinable thread (30.3.1.3, 30.3.1.4).
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If a function with a dynamic-exception-specification throws an exception that is not listed in the dynamicexception-specification, the function std::unexpected() is called (D.11) immediately after completing the stack unwinding for the former function. [ Note: By default, std::unexpected() calls std::terminate(), but a program can install its own handler function (D.11.2). In either case, the constraints in the following paragraph apply. — end note ] The std::unexpected() function shall not return, but it can throw (or re-throw) an exception. If it throws a new exception which is allowed by the exception specification which previously was violated, then the search for another handler will continue at the call of the function whose exception specification was violated. If it throws or rethrows an exception that the dynamic-exception-specification does not allow then the following happens: If the dynamic-exception-specification does not include the class std::bad_exception (18.8.2) then the function std::terminate() is called, otherwise the thrown exception is replaced by an implementation-defined object of the type std::bad_exception and the search for another handler will continue at the call of the function whose dynamic-exception-specification was violated. Thus, a dynamic-exception-specification guarantees that only the listed exceptions will be thrown. If the dynamic-exception-specification includes the type std::bad_exception then any exception not on the list may be replaced by std::bad_exception within the function std::unexpected().
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The std::uncaught_exception() function
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The function std::uncaught_exception() returns true after completing the initialization of the exception object (15.1) until completing the activation of a handler for the exception (15.3, 18.8.4). This includes stack unwinding. If the exception is rethrown (15.1), std::uncaught_exception() returns true from the point of rethrow until the rethrown exception is caught again.
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A preprocessing directive consists of a sequence of preprocessing tokens that satisfies the following constraints: The first token in the sequence is a # preprocessing token that (at the start of translation phase 4) is either the first character in the source file (optionally after white space containing no new-line characters) or that follows white space containing at least one new-line character. The last token in the sequence is the first newline character that follows the first token in the sequence.145 A new-line character ends the preprocessing directive even if it occurs within what would otherwise be an invocation of a function-like macro. preprocessing-file: groupopt group: group-part group group-part group-part: if-section control-line text-line # non-directive if-section: if-group elif-groupsopt else-groupopt endif-line if-group: # if constant-expression new-line groupopt # ifdef identifier new-line groupopt # ifndef identifier new-line groupopt elif-groups: elif-group elif-groups elif-group elif-group: # elif constant-expression new-line groupopt else-group: # else new-line groupopt endif-line: # endif new-line control-line: # include pp-tokens new-line # define identifier replacement-list new-line # define identifier lparen identifier-listopt ) replacement-list new-line # define identifier lparen ... ) replacement-list new-line # define identifier lparen identifier-list, ... ) replacement-list new-line # undef identifier new-line # line pp-tokens new-line # error pp-tokensopt new-line # pragma pp-tokensopt new-line # new-line text-line: pp-tokensopt new-line 145) Thus, preprocessing directives are commonly called “lines.” These “lines” have no other syntactic significance, as all white space is equivalent except in certain situations during preprocessing (see the # character string literal creation operator in 16.3.2, for example).
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non-directive: pp-tokens new-line lparen: a ( character not immediately preceded by white-space identifier-list: identifier identifier-list , identifier replacement-list: pp-tokensopt pp-tokens: preprocessing-token pp-tokens preprocessing-token new-line: the new-line character
A text line shall not begin with a # preprocessing token. A non-directive shall not begin with any of the directive names appearing in the syntax. When in a group that is skipped (16.1), the directive syntax is relaxed to allow any sequence of preprocessing tokens to occur between the directive name and the following new-line character. The only white-space characters that shall appear between preprocessing tokens within a preprocessing directive (from just after the introducing # preprocessing token through just before the terminating new-line character) are space and horizontal-tab (including spaces that have replaced comments or possibly other white-space characters in translation phase 3). The implementation can process and skip sections of source files conditionally, include other source files, and replace macros. These capabilities are called preprocessing, because conceptually they occur before translation of the resulting translation unit. The preprocessing tokens within a preprocessing directive are not subject to macro expansion unless otherwise stated. [ Example: In: #define EMPTY EMPTY # include
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Conditional inclusion
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146) Because the controlling constant expression is evaluated during translation phase 4, all identifiers either are or are not macro names — there simply are no keywords, enumeration constants, etc.
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check whether the identifier is or is not currently defined as a macro name. Their conditions are equivalent to #if defined identifier and #if !defined identifier respectively. Each directive’s condition is checked in order. If it evaluates to false (zero), the group that it controls is skipped: directives are processed only through the name that determines the directive in order to keep track of the level of nested conditionals; the rest of the directives’ preprocessing tokens are ignored, as are the other preprocessing tokens in the group. Only the first group whose control condition evaluates to true (nonzero) is processed. If none of the conditions evaluates to true, and there is a #else directive, the group controlled by the #else is processed; lacking a #else directive, all the groups until the #endif are skipped.150
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A #include directive shall identify a header or source file that can be processed by the implementation. A preprocessing directive of the form
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searches a sequence of implementation-defined places for a header identified uniquely by the specified sequence between the < and > delimiters, and causes the replacement of that directive by the entire contents of the header. How the places are specified or the header identified is implementation-defined. A preprocessing directive of the form
# include < h-char-sequence> new-line
# include " q-char-sequence" new-line
causes the replacement of that directive by the entire contents of the source file identified by the specified sequence between the " delimiters. The named source file is searched for in an implementation-defined manner. If this search is not supported, or if the search fails, the directive is reprocessed as if it read 147) An alternative token (2.6) is not an identifier, even when its spelling consists entirely of letters and underscores. Therefore it is not subject to this replacement. 148) Thus on an implementation where std::numeric_limits::max() is 0x7FFF and std::numeric_limits::max() is 0xFFFF, the integer literal 0x8000 is signed and positive within a #if expression even though it is unsigned in translation phase 7 (2.2). 149) Thus, the constant expression in the following #if directive and if statement is not guaranteed to evaluate to the same value in these two contexts.
#if ’z’ - ’a’ == 25 if (’z’ - ’a’ == 25) 150) As indicated by the syntax, a preprocessing token shall not follow a #else or #endif directive before the terminating new-line character. However, comments may appear anywhere in a source file, including within a preprocessing directive.
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with the identical contained sequence (including > characters, if any) from the original directive. A preprocessing directive of the form # include pp-tokens new-line
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(that does not match one of the two previous forms) is permitted. The preprocessing tokens after include in the directive are processed just as in normal text (Each identifier currently defined as a macro name is replaced by its replacement list of preprocessing tokens.). If the directive resulting after all replacements does not match one of the two previous forms, the behavior is undefined.151 The method by which a sequence of preprocessing tokens between a < and a > preprocessing token pair or a pair of " characters is combined into a single header name preprocessing token is implementation-defined. The implementation shall provide unique mappings for sequences consisting of one or more nondigits or digits (2.11) followed by a period (.) and a single nondigit. The first character shall not be a digit. The implementation may ignore distinctions of alphabetical case. A #include preprocessing directive may appear in a source file that has been read because of a #include directive in another file, up to an implementation-defined nesting limit. [ Note: Although an implementation may provide a mechanism for making arbitrary source files available to the < > search, in general programmers should use the < > form for headers provided with the implementation, and the " " form for sources outside the control of the implementation. For instance: #include #include #include #include
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— end note ] [ Example: This illustrates macro-replaced #include directives: #if VERSION == 1 #define INCFILE #elif VERSION == 2 #define INCFILE #else #define INCFILE #endif #include INCFILE
"vers1.h" "vers2.h"
// and so on
"versN.h"
— end example ]
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[cpp.replace]
Two replacement lists are identical if and only if the preprocessing tokens in both have the same number, ordering, spelling, and white-space separation, where all white-space separations are considered identical. An identifier currently defined as an object-like macro may be redefined by another #define preprocessing directive provided that the second definition is an object-like macro definition and the two replacement lists are identical, otherwise the program is ill-formed. Likewise, an identifier currently defined as a function-like macro may be redefined by another #define preprocessing directive provided that the second definition is a function-like macro definition that has the same number and spelling of parameters, and the two replacement lists are identical, otherwise the program is ill-formed. There shall be white-space between the identifier and the replacement list in the definition of an object-like macro. If the identifier-list in the macro definition does not end with an ellipsis, the number of arguments (including those arguments consisting of no preprocessing tokens) in an invocation of a function-like macro shall equal the number of parameters in the macro definition. Otherwise, there shall be more arguments in the invocation 151) Note that adjacent string literals are not concatenated into a single string literal (see the translation phases in 2.2); thus, an expansion that results in two string literals is an invalid directive.
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than there are parameters in the macro definition (excluding the ...). There shall exist a ) preprocessing token that terminates the invocation. The identifier _ _ VA_ARGS _ _ shall occur only in the replacement-list of a function-like macro that uses the ellipsis notation in the parameters. A parameter identifier in a function-like macro shall be uniquely declared within its scope. The identifier immediately following the define is called the macro name. There is one name space for macro names. Any white-space characters preceding or following the replacement list of preprocessing tokens are not considered part of the replacement list for either form of macro. If a # preprocessing token, followed by an identifier, occurs lexically at the point at which a preprocessing directive could begin, the identifier is not subject to macro replacement. A preprocessing directive of the form
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defines an object-like macro that causes each subsequent instance of the macro name152 to be replaced by the replacement list of preprocessing tokens that constitute the remainder of the directive.153 The replacement list is then rescanned for more macro names as specified below. A preprocessing directive of the form
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# define identifier lparen identifier-listopt ) replacement-list new-line # define identifier lparen ... ) replacement-list new-line # define identifier lparen identifier-list , ... ) replacement-list new-line
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defines a function-like macro with parameters, whose use is similar syntactically to a function call. The parameters are specified by the optional list of identifiers, whose scope extends from their declaration in the identifier list until the new-line character that terminates the #define preprocessing directive. Each subsequent instance of the function-like macro name followed by a ( as the next preprocessing token introduces the sequence of preprocessing tokens that is replaced by the replacement list in the definition (an invocation of the macro). The replaced sequence of preprocessing tokens is terminated by the matching ) preprocessing token, skipping intervening matched pairs of left and right parenthesis preprocessing tokens. Within the sequence of preprocessing tokens making up an invocation of a function-like macro, new-line is considered a normal white-space character. The sequence of preprocessing tokens bounded by the outside-most matching parentheses forms the list of arguments for the function-like macro. The individual arguments within the list are separated by comma preprocessing tokens, but comma preprocessing tokens between matching inner parentheses do not separate arguments. If there are sequences of preprocessing tokens within the list of arguments that would otherwise act as preprocessing directives,154 the behavior is undefined. If there is a ... in the identifier-list in the macro definition, then the trailing arguments, including any separating comma preprocessing tokens, are merged to form a single item: the variable arguments. The number of arguments so combined is such that, following merger, the number of arguments is one more than the number of parameters in the macro definition (excluding the ...).
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[cpp.subst]
After the arguments for the invocation of a function-like macro have been identified, argument substitution takes place. A parameter in the replacement list, unless preceded by a # or ## preprocessing token or followed by a ## preprocessing token (see below), is replaced by the corresponding argument after all macros contained therein have been expanded. Before being substituted, each argument’s preprocessing tokens are completely macro replaced as if they formed the rest of the preprocessing file; no other preprocessing tokens are available. 152) Since, by macro-replacement time, all character literals and string literals are preprocessing tokens, not sequences possibly containing identifier-like subsequences (see 2.2, translation phases), they are never scanned for macro names or parameters. 153) An alternative token (2.6) is not an identifier, even when its spelling consists entirely of letters and underscores. Therefore it is not possible to define a macro whose name is the same as that of an alternative token. 154) Despite the name, a non-directive is a preprocessing directive.
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An identifier _ _ VA_ARGS _ _ that occurs in the replacement list shall be treated as if it were a parameter, and the variable arguments shall form the preprocessing tokens used to replace it.
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[cpp.stringize]
Each # preprocessing token in the replacement list for a function-like macro shall be followed by a parameter as the next preprocessing token in the replacement list. A character string literal is a string-literal with no prefix. If, in the replacement list, a parameter is immediately preceded by a # preprocessing token, both are replaced by a single character string literal preprocessing token that contains the spelling of the preprocessing token sequence for the corresponding argument. Each occurrence of white space between the argument’s preprocessing tokens becomes a single space character in the character string literal. White space before the first preprocessing token and after the last preprocessing token comprising the argument is deleted. Otherwise, the original spelling of each preprocessing token in the argument is retained in the character string literal, except for special handling for producing the spelling of string literals and character literals: a \ character is inserted before each " and \ character of a character literal or string literal (including the delimiting " characters). If the replacement that results is not a valid character string literal, the behavior is undefined. The character string literal corresponding to an empty argument is "". The order of evaluation of # and ## operators is unspecified.
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[cpp.concat]
A ## preprocessing token shall not occur at the beginning or at the end of a replacement list for either form of macro definition. If, in the replacement list of a function-like macro, a parameter is immediately preceded or followed by a ## preprocessing token, the parameter is replaced by the corresponding argument’s preprocessing token sequence; however, if an argument consists of no preprocessing tokens, the parameter is replaced by a placemarker preprocessing token instead.155 For both object-like and function-like macro invocations, before the replacement list is reexamined for more macro names to replace, each instance of a ## preprocessing token in the replacement list (not from an argument) is deleted and the preceding preprocessing token is concatenated with the following preprocessing token. Placemarker preprocessing tokens are handled specially: concatenation of two placemarkers results in a single placemarker preprocessing token, and concatenation of a placemarker with a non-placemarker preprocessing token results in the non-placemarker preprocessing token. If the result is not a valid preprocessing token, the behavior is undefined. The resulting token is available for further macro replacement. The order of evaluation of ## operators is unspecified. [ Example: In the following fragment: #define hash_hash # ## # #define mkstr(a) # a #define in_between(a) mkstr(a) #define join(c, d) in_between(c hash_hash d) char p[] = join(x, y); // equivalent to // char p[] = "x ## y";
The expansion produces, at various stages: join(x, y) in_between(x hash_hash y) in_between(x ## y) mkstr(x ## y) "x ## y" 155) Placemarker preprocessing tokens do not appear in the syntax because they are temporary entities that exist only within translation phase 4.
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In other words, expanding hash_hash produces a new token, consisting of two adjacent sharp signs, but this new token is not the ## operator. — end example ]
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Rescanning and further replacement
After all parameters in the replacement list have been substituted and # and ## processing has taken place, all placemarker preprocessing tokens are removed. Then the resulting preprocessing token sequence is rescanned, along with all subsequent preprocessing tokens of the source file, for more macro names to replace. If the name of the macro being replaced is found during this scan of the replacement list (not including the rest of the source file’s preprocessing tokens), it is not replaced. Furthermore, if any nested replacements encounter the name of the macro being replaced, it is not replaced. These nonreplaced macro name preprocessing tokens are no longer available for further replacement even if they are later (re)examined in contexts in which that macro name preprocessing token would otherwise have been replaced. The resulting completely macro-replaced preprocessing token sequence is not processed as a preprocessing directive even if it resembles one, but all pragma unary operator expressions within it are then processed as specified in 16.9 below.
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Scope of macro definitions
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A macro definition lasts (independent of block structure) until a corresponding #undef directive is encountered or (if none is encountered) until the end of the translation unit. Macro definitions have no significance after translation phase 4. A preprocessing directive of the form
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causes the specified identifier no longer to be defined as a macro name. It is ignored if the specified identifier is not currently defined as a macro name. [ Note: The simplest use of this facility is to define a “manifest constant,” as in
# undef identifier new-line
#define TABSIZE 100 int table[TABSIZE]; 4
— end note ] The following defines a function-like macro whose value is the maximum of its arguments. It has the advantages of working for any compatible types of the arguments and of generating in-line code without the overhead of function calling. It has the disadvantages of evaluating one or the other of its arguments a second time (including side effects) and generating more code than a function if invoked several times. It also cannot have its address taken, as it has none. #define max(a, b) ((a) > (b) ? (a) : (b))
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The parentheses ensure that the arguments and the resulting expression are bound properly. To illustrate the rules for redefinition and reexamination, the sequence #define #define #undef #define #define #define #define #define #define #define #define #define #define #define
§ 16.3.5
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f(y+1) + f(f(z)) % t(t(g)(0) + t)(1); g(x+(3,4)-w) | h 5) & m (f)^m(m); p() i[q()] = { q(1), r(2,3), r(4,), r(,5), r(,) }; char c[2][6] = { str(hello), str() };
results in f(2 * (y+1)) + f(2 * (f(2 * (z[0])))) % f(2 * (0)) + t(1); f(2 * (2+(3,4)-0,1)) | f(2 * (∼ 5)) & f(2 * (0,1))^m(0,1); int i[] = { 1, 23, 4, 5, }; char c[2][6] = { "hello", "" }; 6
To illustrate the rules for creating character string literals and concatenating tokens, the sequence #define str(s) #define xstr(s) #define debug(s, t) x ## #define INCFILE(n) #define glue(a, b) #define xglue(a, b) #define HIGHLOW #define LOW
# s str(s) printf("x" # s "= %d, x" # t "= %s", \ s, x ## t) vers ## n a ## b glue(a, b) "hello" LOW ", world"
debug(1, 2); fputs(str(strncmp("abc\0d", "abc", ’\4’) == 0) str(: @\n), s); #include xstr(INCFILE(2).h) glue(HIGH, LOW); xglue(HIGH, LOW)
// this goes away
results in printf("x" "1" "= %d, x" "2" "= %s", x1, x2); fputs("strncmp(\"abc\\0d\", \"abc\", ’\\4’) == 0" ": @\n", s); #include "vers2.h" (after macro replacement, before file access) "hello"; "hello" ", world"
or, after concatenation of the character string literals, printf("x1= %d, x2= %s", x1, x2); fputs("strncmp(\"abc\\0d\", \"abc\", ’\\4’) == 0: @\n", s); #include "vers2.h" (after macro replacement, before file access) "hello"; "hello, world" 7
Space around the # and ## tokens in the macro definition is optional. To illustrate the rules for placemarker preprocessing tokens, the sequence #define t(x,y,z) x ## y ## z int j[] = { t(1,2,3), t(,4,5), t(6,,7), t(8,9,), t(10,,), t(,11,), t(,,12), t(,,) };
results in int j[] = { 123, 45, 67, 89, 10, 11, 12, };
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To demonstrate the redefinition rules, the following sequence is valid. #define #define #define #define
OBJ_LIKE (1-1) OBJ_LIKE /* white space */ (1-1) /* other */ FUNC_LIKE(a) ( a ) FUNC_LIKE( a )( /* note the white space */ \ a /* other stuff on this line */ )
But the following redefinitions are invalid: #define #define #define #define 9
OBJ_LIKE (0) OBJ_LIKE (1 - 1) FUNC_LIKE(b) ( a ) FUNC_LIKE(b) ( b )
// // // //
different different different different
token sequence white space parameter usage parameter spelling
Finally, to show the variable argument list macro facilities: #define debug(...) fprintf(stderr, _ _ VA_ARGS _ _) #define showlist(...) puts(#_ _ VA_ARGS _ _) #define report(test, ...) ((test) ? puts(#test) : printf(_ _ VA_ARGS _ _)) debug("Flag"); debug("X = %d\n", x); showlist(The first, second, and third items.); report(x>y, "x is %d but y is %d", x, y);
results in fprintf(stderr, "Flag"); fprintf(stderr, "X = %d\n", x); puts("The first, second, and third items."); ((x>y) ? puts("x>y") : printf("x is %d but y is %d", x, y));
— end note ]
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Line control
[cpp.line]
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The string literal of a #line directive, if present, shall be a character string literal. The line number of the current source line is one greater than the number of new-line characters read or introduced in translation phase 1 (2.2) while processing the source file to the current token. A preprocessing directive of the form
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causes the implementation to behave as if the following sequence of source lines begins with a source line that has a line number as specified by the digit sequence (interpreted as a decimal integer). If the digit sequence specifies zero or a number greater than 2147483647, the behavior is undefined. A preprocessing directive of the form
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sets the presumed line number similarly and changes the presumed name of the source file to be the contents of the character string literal. A preprocessing directive of the form
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# line digit-sequence new-line
# line digit-sequence " s-char-sequenceopt " new-line
# line pp-tokens new-line
(that does not match one of the two previous forms) is permitted. The preprocessing tokens after line on the directive are processed just as in normal text (each identifier currently defined as a macro name is replaced by its replacement list of preprocessing tokens). If the directive resulting after all replacements does not match one of the two previous forms, the behavior is undefined; otherwise, the result is processed as appropriate.
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Error directive
[cpp.error]
A preprocessing directive of the form § 16.5
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causes the implementation to produce a diagnostic message that includes the specified sequence of preprocessing tokens, and renders the program ill-formed.
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Pragma directive
[cpp.pragma]
A preprocessing directive of the form # pragma pp-tokensopt new-line
causes the implementation to behave in an implementation-defined manner. The behavior might cause translation to fail or cause the translator or the resulting program to behave in a non-conforming manner. Any pragma that is not recognized by the implementation is ignored.
16.7 1
Null directive
[cpp.null]
A preprocessing directive of the form # new-line
has no effect.
16.8 1
Predefined macro names
[cpp.predefined]
The following macro names shall be defined by the implementation: _ _ cplusplus The name _ _ cplusplus is defined to the value 201103L when compiling a C++ translation unit.156 _ _ DATE _ _ The date of translation of the source file: a character string literal of the form "Mmm dd yyyy", where the names of the months are the same as those generated by the asctime function, and the first character of dd is a space character if the value is less than 10. If the date of translation is not available, an implementation-defined valid date shall be supplied. _ _ FILE _ _ The presumed name of the current source file (a character string literal).157 _ _ LINE _ _ The presumed line number (within the current source file) of the current source line (an integer constant).157 _ _ STDC_HOSTED _ _ The integer constant 1 if the implementation is a hosted implementation or the integer constant 0 if it is not. _ _ TIME _ _ The time of translation of the source file: a character string literal of the form "hh:mm:ss" as in the time generated by the asctime function. If the time of translation is not available, an implementationdefined valid time shall be supplied.
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The following macro names are conditionally defined by the implementation: _ _ STDC _ _ Whether _ _ STDC _ _ is predefined and if so, what its value is, are implementation-defined. _ _ STDC_MB_MIGHT_NEQ_WC _ _ The integer constant 1, intended to indicate that, in the encoding for wchar_t, a member of the basic character set need not have a code value equal to its value when used as the lone character in an ordinary character literal. 156) It is intended that future versions of this standard will replace the value of this macro with a greater value. Non-conforming compilers should use a value with at most five decimal digits. 157) The presumed source file name and line number can be changed by the #line directive.
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_ _ STDC_VERSION _ _ Whether _ _ STDC_VERSION _ _ is predefined and if so, what its value is, are implementation-defined. _ _ STDC_ISO_10646 _ _ An integer constant of the form yyyymmL (for example, 199712L). If this symbol is defined, then every character in the Unicode required set, when stored in an object of type wchar_t, has the same value as the short identifier of that character. The Unicode required set consists of all the characters that are defined by ISO/IEC 10646, along with all amendments and technical corrigenda as of the specified year and month. _ _ STDCPP_STRICT_POINTER_SAFETY _ _ Defined, and has the value integer constant 1, if and only if the implementation has strict pointer safety (3.7.4.3). _ _ STDCPP_THREADS _ _ Defined, and has the value integer constant 1, if and only if a program can have more than one thread of execution (1.10). 3
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The values of the predefined macros (except for _ _ FILE _ _ and _ _ LINE _ _) remain constant throughout the translation unit. If any of the pre-defined macro names in this subclause, or the identifier defined, is the subject of a #define or a #undef preprocessing directive, the behavior is undefined. Any other predefined macro names shall begin with a leading underscore followed by an uppercase letter or a second underscore.
16.9
Pragma operator
[cpp.pragma.op]
A unary operator expression of the form: _Pragma ( string-literal )
is processed as follows: The string literal is destringized by deleting the L prefix, if present, deleting the leading and trailing double-quotes, replacing each escape sequence \" by a double-quote, and replacing each escape sequence \\ by a single backslash. The resulting sequence of characters is processed through translation phase 3 to produce preprocessing tokens that are executed as if they were the pp-tokens in a pragma directive. The original four preprocessing tokens in the unary operator expression are removed. [ Example: #pragma listing on "..\listing.dir"
can also be expressed as: _Pragma ( "listing on \"..\\listing.dir\"" )
The latter form is processed in the same way whether it appears literally as shown, or results from macro replacement, as in: #define LISTING(x) PRAGMA(listing on #x) #define PRAGMA(x) _Pragma(#x) LISTING( ..\listing.dir )
— end example ]
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Library introduction General
[library] [library.general]
This Clause describes the contents of the C++ standard library, how a well-formed C++ program makes use of the library, and how a conforming implementation may provide the entities in the library. The following subclauses describe the definitions (17.3), method of description (17.5), and organization (17.6.1) of the library. Clause 17.6, Clauses 18 through 30, and Annex D specify the contents of the library, as well as library requirements and constraints on both well-formed C++ programs and conforming implementations. Detailed specifications for each of the components in the library are in Clauses 18–30, as shown in Table 13. Table 13 — Library categories Clause 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
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Category Language support library Diagnostics library General utilities library Strings library Localization library Containers library Iterators library Algorithms library Numerics library Input/output library Regular expressions library Atomic operations library Thread support library
The language support library (Clause 18) provides components that are required by certain parts of the C++ language, such as memory allocation (5.3.4, 5.3.5) and exception processing (Clause 15). The diagnostics library (Clause 19) provides a consistent framework for reporting errors in a C++ program, including predefined exception classes. The general utilities library (Clause 20) includes components used by other library elements, such as a predefined storage allocator for dynamic storage management (3.7.4), and components used as infrastructure in C++ programs, such as a tuples, function wrappers, and time facilities. The strings library (Clause 21) provides support for manipulating text represented as sequences of type char, sequences of type char16_t, sequences of type char32_t, sequences of type wchar_t, and sequences of any other character-like type. The localization library (Clause 22) provides extended internationalization support for text processing. The containers (Clause 23), iterators (Clause 24), and algorithms (Clause 25) libraries provide a C++ program with access to a subset of the most widely used algorithms and data structures. The numerics library (Clause 26) provides numeric algorithms and complex number components that extend support for numeric processing. The valarray component provides support for n-at-a-time processing, potentially implemented as parallel operations on platforms that support such processing. The random number component provides facilities for generating pseudo-random numbers. The input/output library (Clause 27) provides the iostream components that are the primary mechanism for C++ program input and output. They can be used with other elements of the library, particularly strings, § 17.1
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locales, and iterators. The regular expressions library (Clause 28) provides regular expression matching and searching. The atomic operations library (Clause 29) allows more fine-grained concurrent access to shared data than is possible with locks. The thread support library (Clause 30) provides components to create and manage threads, including mutual exclusion and interthread communication.
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[library.c]
The C++ standard library also makes available the facilities of the C standard library, suitably adjusted to ensure static type safety. The descriptions of many library functions rely on the C standard library for the signatures and semantics of those functions. In all such cases, any use of the restrict qualifier shall be omitted.
17.3
Definitions
[definitions]
17.3.1 [defns.arbitrary.stream] arbitrary-positional stream a stream (described in Clause 27) that can seek to any integral position within the length of the stream [ Note: Every arbitrary-positional stream is also a repositional stream. — end note ] 17.3.2 block place a thread in the blocked state
[defns.block]
17.3.3 [defns.blocked] blocked thread a thread that is waiting for some condition (other than the availability of a processor) to be satisfied before it can continue execution158 17.3.4 [defns.character] character any object which, when treated sequentially, can represent text [ Note: The term does not mean only char, char16_t, char32_t, and wchar_t objects, but any value that can be represented by a type that provides the definitions specified in these Clauses. — end note ] 17.3.5 [defns.character.container] character container type a class or a type used to represent a character [ Note: It is used for one of the template parameters of the string, iostream, and regular expression class templates. A character container type is a POD (3.9) type. — end note ] 17.3.6 [defns.comparison] comparison function an operator function (13.5) for any of the equality (5.10) or relational (5.9) operators 17.3.7 component a group of library entities directly related as members, parameters, or return types
[defns.component]
158) This definition is taken from POSIX.
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[ Note: For example, the class template basic_string and the non-member function templates that operate on strings are referred to as the string component. — end note ] 17.3.8 [defns.deadlock] deadlock one or more threads are unable to continue execution because each is blocked waiting for one or more of the others to satisfy some condition 17.3.9 [defns.default.behavior.impl] default behavior any specific behavior provided by the implementation, within the scope of the required behavior 17.3.10 [defns.default.behavior.func] default behavior a description of replacement function and handler function semantics 17.3.11 [defns.handler] handler function a non-reserved function whose definition may be provided by a C++ program [ Note: A C++ program may designate a handler function at various points in its execution by supplying a pointer to the function when calling any of the library functions that install handler functions (Clause 18). — end note ] 17.3.12 [defns.iostream.templates] iostream class templates templates, defined in Clause 27, that take two template arguments [ Note: The arguments are named charT and traits. The argument charT is a character container class, and the argument traits is a class which defines additional characteristics and functions of the character type represented by charT necessary to implement the iostream class templates. — end note ] 17.3.13 [defns.modifier] modifier function a class member function (9.3) other than a constructor, assignment operator, or destructor that alters the state of an object of the class 17.3.14 move construction direct-initialization of an object of some type with an rvalue of the same type
[defns.move.constr]
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[description]
This subclause describes the conventions used to specify the C++ standard library. 17.5.1 describes the structure of the normative Clauses 18 through 30 and Annex D. 17.5.2 describes other editorial conventions.
17.5.1
Structure of each clause
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1.3 defines additional terms used elsewhere in this International Standard.
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Elements
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Each library clause contains the following elements, as applicable:159 — Summary — Requirements — Detailed specifications — References to the Standard C library 17.5.1.2
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Requirements describe constraints that shall be met by a Such extensions are generally one of the following: — Template arguments
[structure.requirements] C++
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Requirements are stated in terms of well-defined expressions that define valid terms of the types that satisfy the requirements. For every set of well-defined expression requirements there is a table that specifies an initial set of the valid expressions and their semantics. Any generic algorithm (Clause 25) that uses the well-defined expression requirements is described in terms of the valid expressions for its formal type parameters. Template argument requirements are sometimes referenced by name. See 17.5.2.1. In some cases the semantic requirements are presented as C++ code. Such code is intended as a specification of equivalence of a construct to another construct, not necessarily as the way the construct must be implemented.160 17.5.1.4
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functions, there will be no “Comparison functions” subclause. 162) To save space, items that do not apply to a function are omitted. For example, if a function does not specify any further preconditions, there will be no “Requires” paragraph.
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Whenever the Effects: element specifies that the semantics of some function F are Equivalent to some code sequence, then the various elements are interpreted as follows. If F’s semantics specifies a Requires: element, then that requirement is logically imposed prior to the equivalent-to semantics. Next, the semantics of the code sequence are determined by the Requires:, Effects:, Postconditions:, Returns:, Throws:, Complexity:, Remarks:, Error conditions:, and Notes: specified for the function invocations contained in the code sequence. The value returned from F is specified by F’s Returns: element, or if F has no Returns: element, a non-void return from F is specified by the Returns: elements in the code sequence. If F’s semantics contains a Throws:, Postconditions:, or Complexity: element, then that supersedes any occurrences of that element in the code sequence. For non-reserved replacement and handler functions, Clause 18 specifies two behaviors for the functions in question: their required and default behavior. The default behavior describes a function definition provided by the implementation. The required behavior describes the semantics of a function definition provided by either the implementation or a C++ program. Where no distinction is explicitly made in the description, the behavior described is the required behavior. If the formulation of a complexity requirement calls for a negative number of operations, the actual requirement is zero operations.163 Complexity requirements specified in the library clauses are upper bounds, and implementations that provide better complexity guarantees satisfy the requirements. Error conditions specify conditions where a function may fail. The conditions are listed, together with a suitable explanation, as the enum class errc constants (19.5). 17.5.1.5
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[conventions]
This subclause describes several editorial conventions used to describe the contents of the C++ standard library. These conventions are for describing implementation-defined types (17.5.2.1), and member functions (17.5.2.2). 17.5.2.1 Type descriptions [type.descriptions] 17.5.2.1.1
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Paragraphs labeled “See also:” contain cross-references to the relevant portions of this International Standard and the ISO C standard, which is incorporated into this International Standard by reference.
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[type.descriptions.general]
The Requirements subclauses may describe names that are used to specify constraints on template arguments.164 These names are used in library Clauses to describe the types that may be supplied as arguments by a C++ program when instantiating template components from the library. Certain types defined in Clause 27 are used to describe implementation-defined types. They are based on other types, but with added constraints. 17.5.2.1.2 Enumerated types [enumerated.types] Several types defined in Clause 27 are enumerated types. Each enumerated type may be implemented as an enumeration or as a synonym for an enumeration.165 The enumerated type enumerated can be written: enum enumerated
{ V0 , V1 , V2 , V3 , ..... };
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163) This simplifies the presentation of complexity requirements in some cases. 164) Examples from 17.6.3 include: EqualityComparable, LessThanComparable, CopyConstructible. Examples from 24.2 in-
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static const enumerated C1 static const enumerated C2 static const enumerated C3 .....
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type of T::m
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Assertion/note pre-/post-condition pre: (*q).m is well-defined. equivalent to (*q).m static_cast(w) == p static_cast(z) == q Memory is allocated for n objects of type T but objects are not constructed. allocate may raise an appropriate exception.179 [ Note: If n == 0, the return value is unspecified. — end note ] Same as a.allocate(n). The use of u is unspecified, but it is intended as an aid to locality. All n T objects in the area pointed to by p shall be destroyed prior to this call. n shall match the value passed to allocate to obtain this memory. Does not throw exceptions. [ Note:p shall not be singular. — end note ] the largest value that can meaningfully be passed to X::allocate() returns true only if storage allocated from each can be deallocated via the other. operator== shall be reflexive, symmetric, and transitive, and shall not exit via an exception. same as !(a1 == a2) same as a == Y::rebind::other(b) same as !(a == b) Shall not exit via an exception. post: a1 == a Shall not exit via an exception. post: Y(a) == b, a == X(b) Shall not exit via an exception. post: a1 equals the prior value of a.
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Note A: The member class template rebind in the table above is effectively a typedef template. [ Note: In general, if the name Allocator is bound to SomeAllocator, then Allocator::rebind::other is the same type as SomeAllocator, where SomeAllocator::value_type is T and SomeAllocator:: value_type is U. — end note ] If Allocator is a class template instantiation of the form SomeAllocator, where Args is zero or more type arguments, and Allocator does not supply a rebind member template, the standard allocator_traits template uses SomeAllocator in place of Allocator:: rebind::other by default. For allocator types that are not template instantiations of the above form, no default is provided. The X::pointer, X::const_pointer, X::void_pointer, and X::const_void_pointer types shall satisfy the requirements of NullablePointer (17.6.3.3). No constructor, comparison operator, copy operation, move operation, or swap operation on these types shall exit via an exception. X::pointer and X::const_pointer shall also satisfy the requirements for a random access iterator (24.2). An allocator may constrain the types on which it can be instantiated and the arguments for which its construct member may be called. If a type cannot be used with a particular allocator, the allocator class or the call to construct may fail to instantiate. [ Example: the following is an allocator class template supporting the minimal interface that satisfies the requirements of Table 28: template 179) It is intended that a.allocate be an efficient means of allocating a single object of type T, even when sizeof(T) is small. That is, there is no need for a container to maintain its own free list.
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struct SimpleAllocator { typedef Tp value_type; SimpleAllocator(ctor args ); template SimpleAllocator(const SimpleAllocator& other); Tp *allocate(std::size_t n); void deallocate(Tp *p, std::size_t n); }; template bool operator==(const SimpleAllocator&, const SimpleAllocator&); template bool operator!=(const SimpleAllocator&, const SimpleAllocator&); 6
— end example ] If the alignment associated with a specific over-aligned type is not supported by an allocator, instantiation of the allocator for that type may fail. The allocator also may silently ignore the requested alignment. [ Note: Additionally, the member function allocate for that type may fail by throwing an object of type std::bad_alloc. — end note ]
17.6.4
Constraints on programs
17.6.4.1 1
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This section describes restrictions on C++ programs that use the facilities of the C++ standard library. The following subclauses specify constraints on the program’s use of namespaces (17.6.4.2.1), its use of various reserved names (17.6.4.3), its use of headers (17.6.4.4), its use of standard library classes as base classes (17.6.4.5), its definitions of replacement functions (17.6.4.6), and its installation of handler functions during execution (17.6.4.7). 17.6.4.2 Namespace use [namespace.constraints] 17.6.4.2.1
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[constraints]
Namespace std
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The behavior of a C++ program is undefined if it adds declarations or definitions to namespace std or to a namespace within namespace std unless otherwise specified. A program may add a template specialization for any standard library template to namespace std only if the declaration depends on a user-defined type and the specialization meets the standard library requirements for the original template and is not explicitly prohibited.180 The behavior of a C++ program is undefined if it declares — an explicit specialization of any member function of a standard library class template, or — an explicit specialization of any member function template of a standard library class or class template, or — an explicit or partial specialization of any member class template of a standard library class or class template.
3
A program may explicitly instantiate a template defined in the standard library only if the declaration depends on the name of a user-defined type and the instantiation meets the standard library requirements for the original template. A translation unit shall not declare namespace std to be an inline namespace (7.3.1). 180) Any library code that instantiates other library templates must be prepared to work adequately with any user-supplied specialization that meets the minimum requirements of the Standard.
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C++
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Macro names
[macro.names]
A translation unit that includes a standard library header shall not #define or #undef names declared in any standard library header. A translation unit shall not #define or #undef names lexically identical to keywords, to the identifiers listed in Table 3, or to the attribute-tokens described in 7.6. 17.6.4.3.2 Global names [global.names] Certain sets of names and function signatures are always reserved to the implementation: — Each name that contains a double underscore _ _ or begins with an underscore followed by an uppercase letter (2.12) is reserved to the implementation for any use. — Each name that begins with an underscore is reserved to the implementation for use as a name in the global namespace. 17.6.4.3.3
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External linkage
[extern.names]
Each name declared as an object with external linkage in a header is reserved to the implementation to designate that library object with external linkage,181 both in namespace std and in the global namespace. Each global function signature declared with external linkage in a header is reserved to the implementation to designate that function signature with external linkage. 182 Each name from the Standard C library declared with external linkage is reserved to the implementation for use as a name with extern "C" linkage, both in namespace std and in the global namespace. Each function signature from the Standard C library declared with external linkage is reserved to the implementation for use as a function signature with both extern "C" and extern "C++" linkage, 183 or as a name of namespace scope in the global namespace. 17.6.4.3.4 Types [extern.types]
1
For each type T from the Standard C library,184 the types ::T and std::T are reserved to the implementation and, when defined, ::T shall be identical to std::T. 17.6.4.3.5 User-defined literal suffixes [usrlit.suffix]
1
Literal suffix identifiers that do not start with an underscore are reserved for future standardization. 17.6.4.4 Headers [alt.headers]
1
If a file with a name equivalent to the derived file name for one of the C++ standard library headers is not 181) The list of such reserved names includes errno, declared or defined in . 182) The list of such reserved function signatures with external linkage includes setjmp(jmp_buf), declared or defined in
, and va_end(va_list), declared or defined in . 183) The function signatures declared in , , and are always reserved, notwithstanding the restrictions imposed in subclause 4.5.1 of Amendment 1 to the C Standard for these headers. 184) These types are clock_t, div_t, FILE, fpos_t, lconv, ldiv_t, mbstate_t, ptrdiff_t, sig_atomic_t, size_t, time_t, tm, va_list, wctrans_t, wctype_t, and wint_t.
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provided as part of the implementation, and a file with that name is placed in any of the standard places for a source file to be included (16.2), the behavior is undefined. 17.6.4.5 Derived classes [derived.classes] 1
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1
Clauses 18 through 30 and Annex D describe the behavior of numerous functions defined by the C++ standard library. Under some circumstances, however, certain of these function descriptions also apply to replacement functions defined in the program (17.3). A C++ program may provide the definition for any of eight dynamic memory allocation function signatures declared in header (3.7.4, 18.6): — operator new(std::size_t)
2
— operator new(std::size_t, const std::nothrow_t&) — operator new[](std::size_t) — operator new[](std::size_t, const std::nothrow_t&) — operator delete(void*) — operator delete(void*, const std::nothrow_t&) — operator delete[](void*) — operator delete[](void*, const std::nothrow_t&) 3
The program’s definitions are used instead of the default versions supplied by the implementation (18.6). Such replacement occurs prior to program startup (3.2, 3.6). The program’s definitions shall not be specified as inline. No diagnostic is required. 17.6.4.7
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Handler functions
[handler.functions]
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2
A C++ program may install different handler functions during execution, by supplying a pointer to a function defined in the program or the library as an argument to (respectively): — set_new_handler — set_unexpected — set_terminate See also: subclauses 18.6.2, Storage allocation errors, and 18.8, Exception handling.
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In certain cases (replacement functions, handler functions, operations on types used to instantiate standard library template components), the C++ standard library depends on components supplied by a C++ program. If these components do not meet their requirements, the Standard places no requirements on the implementation. In particular, the effects are undefined in the following cases: — for replacement functions (18.6.1), if the installed replacement function does not implement the semantics of the applicable Required behavior: paragraph. — for handler functions (18.6.2.3, 18.8.3.1, D.11.1), if the installed handler function does not implement the semantics of the applicable Required behavior: paragraph — for types used as template arguments when instantiating a template component, if the operations on the type do not implement the semantics of the applicable Requirements subclause (17.6.3.5, 23.2, 24.2, 26.2). Operations on such types can report a failure by throwing an exception unless otherwise specified. — if any replacement function or handler function or destructor operation exits via an exception, unless specifically allowed in the applicable Required behavior: paragraph. — if an incomplete type (3.9) is used as a template argument when instantiating a template component, unless specifically allowed for that component. 17.6.4.9
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Function arguments
[res.on.arguments]
Each of the following applies to all arguments to functions defined in the C++ standard library, unless explicitly stated otherwise. — If an argument to a function has an invalid value (such as a value outside the domain of the function or a pointer invalid for its intended use), the behavior is undefined. — If a function argument is described as being an array, the pointer actually passed to the function shall have a value such that all address computations and accesses to objects (that would be valid if the pointer did point to the first element of such an array) are in fact valid. — If a function argument binds to an rvalue reference parameter, the implementation may assume that this parameter is a unique reference to this argument. [ Note: If the parameter is a generic parameter of the form T&& and an lvalue of type A is bound, the argument binds to an lvalue reference (14.8.2.1) and thus is not covered by the previous sentence. — end note ] [ Note: If a program casts an lvalue to an xvalue while passing that lvalue to a library function (e.g. by calling the function with the argument move(x)), the program is effectively asking that function to treat that lvalue as a temporary. The implementation is free to optimize away aliasing checks which might be needed if the argument was an lvalue. — end note ] 17.6.4.10
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[res.on.objects]
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than destruction on such an object happens before destruction of that object. This applies even to objects such as mutexes intended for thread synchronization. — end note ] 17.6.4.11 Requires paragraph [res.on.required] 1
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Conforming implementations Overview
[conforming] [conforming.overview]
This section describes the constraints upon, and latitude of, implementations of the C++ standard library. An implementation’s use of headers is discussed in 17.6.5.2, its use of macros in 17.6.5.3, global functions in 17.6.5.4, member functions in 17.6.5.5, data race avoidance in 17.6.5.9, access specifiers in 17.6.5.10, class derivation in 17.6.5.11, and exceptions in 17.6.5.12. 17.6.5.2 Headers [res.on.headers] A C++ header may include other C++ headers. A C++ header shall provide the declarations and definitions that appear in its synopsis. A C++ header shown in its synopsis as including other C++ headers shall provide the declarations and definitions that appear in the synopses of those other headers. Certain types and macros are defined in more than one header. Every such entity shall be defined such that any header that defines it may be included after any other header that also defines it (3.2). The C standard headers (D.5) shall include only their corresponding C++ standard header, as described in 17.6.1.2. 17.6.5.3 Restrictions on macro definitions [res.on.macro.definitions] The names and global function signatures described in 17.6.1.1 are reserved to the implementation. All object-like macros defined by the C standard library and described in this Clause as expanding to integral constant expressions are also suitable for use in #if preprocessing directives, unless explicitly stated otherwise. 17.6.5.4 Global and non-member functions [global.functions] It is unspecified whether any global or non-member functions in the C++ standard library are defined as inline (7.1.2). A call to a global or non-member function signature described in Clauses 18 through 30 and Annex D shall behave as if the implementation declared no additional global or non-member function signatures.185 An implementation shall not declare a global or non-member function signature with additional default arguments. Unless otherwise specified, global and non-member functions in the standard library shall not use functions from another namespace which are found through argument-dependent name lookup (3.4.2). [ Note: The phrase “unless otherwise specified” is intended to allow argument-dependent lookup in cases like that of ostream_iterators: Effects: *out_stream are not provided. — The indexing observer operator[] is provided. — The default deleter will call delete[].
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unique_ptr constructors
[unique.ptr.runtime.ctor]
explicit unique_ptr(pointer p) noexcept; unique_ptr(pointer p, see below d) noexcept; unique_ptr(pointer p, see below d) noexcept;
These constructors behave the same as in the primary template except that they do not accept pointer types which are convertible to pointer. [ Note: One implementation technique is to create private templated overloads of these members. — end note ] 20.7.1.3.2
unique_ptr observers
[unique.ptr.runtime.observers]
T& operator[](size_t i) const; 1
Requires: i < the number of elements in the array to which the stored pointer points.
2
Returns: get()[i]. 20.7.1.3.3
unique_ptr modifiers
[unique.ptr.runtime.modifiers]
void reset(pointer p = pointer()) noexcept; void reset(nullptr_t p) noexcept; 1
Effects: If get() == nullptr there are no effects. Otherwise get_deleter()(get()).
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Postcondition: get() == p.
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unique_ptr specialized algorithms
N3376
[unique.ptr.special]
template void swap(unique_ptr& x, unique_ptr& y) noexcept; 1
Effects: Calls x.swap(y). template bool operator==(const unique_ptr& x, const unique_ptr& y);
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Returns: x.get() == y.get(). template bool operator!=(const unique_ptr& x, const unique_ptr& y);
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Returns: x.get() != y.get(). template bool operator=(const unique_ptr& x, const unique_ptr& y);
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Returns: !(x < y). template bool operator==(const unique_ptr& x, nullptr_t) noexcept; template bool operator==(nullptr_t, const unique_ptr& x) noexcept;
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Returns: !x.
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template bool operator!=(const unique_ptr& x, nullptr_t) noexcept; template bool operator!=(nullptr_t, const unique_ptr& x) noexcept; 11
Returns: (bool)x. template bool operator(nullptr_t, const unique_ptr& x);
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Returns: The first function template returns nullptr < x. The second function template returns x < nullptr. template bool operator=(nullptr_t, const unique_ptr& x);
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Returns: The first function template returns !(x < nullptr). The second function template returns !(nullptr < x).
20.7.2 20.7.2.1
Shared-ownership pointers Class bad_weak_ptr
[util.smartptr] [util.smartptr.weakptr]
namespace std { class bad_weak_ptr: public std::exception { public: bad_weak_ptr() noexcept; }; } // namespace std
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An exception of type bad_weak_ptr is thrown by the shared_ptr constructor taking a weak_ptr. bad_weak_ptr() noexcept;
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Postconditions: what() returns "bad_weak_ptr". 20.7.2.2
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Class template shared_ptr
[util.smartptr.shared]
The shared_ptr class template stores a pointer, usually obtained via new. shared_ptr implements semantics of shared ownership; the last remaining owner of the pointer is responsible for destroying the object, or otherwise releasing the resources associated with the stored pointer. A shared_ptr object is empty if it does not own a pointer. namespace std { template class shared_ptr { public: typedef T element_type; // 20.7.2.2.1, constructors: constexpr shared_ptr() noexcept; template explicit shared_ptr(Y* p); template shared_ptr(Y* p, D d); template shared_ptr(Y* p, D d, A a); template shared_ptr(nullptr_t p, D d) template shared_ptr(nullptr_t p, D d, A a) template shared_ptr(const shared_ptr& r, T *p) noexcept; shared_ptr(const shared_ptr& r) noexcept; template shared_ptr(const shared_ptr& r) noexcept; shared_ptr(shared_ptr&& r) noexcept; template shared_ptr(shared_ptr&& r) noexcept; template explicit shared_ptr(const weak_ptr& r); template shared_ptr(auto_ptr&& r); template shared_ptr(unique_ptr&& r); constexpr shared_ptr(nullptr_t) : shared_ptr() { } // 20.7.2.2.2, destructor: ~shared_ptr(); // 20.7.2.2.3, assignment: shared_ptr& operator=(const shared_ptr& r) noexcept; template shared_ptr& operator=(const shared_ptr& r) noexcept; shared_ptr& operator=(shared_ptr&& r) noexcept; template shared_ptr& operator=(shared_ptr&& r) noexcept; template shared_ptr& operator=(auto_ptr&& r); template shared_ptr& operator=(unique_ptr&& r); // 20.7.2.2.4, modifiers: void swap(shared_ptr& r) noexcept; void reset() noexcept; template void reset(Y* p); template void reset(Y* p, D d); template void reset(Y* p, D d, A a); // T* T& T*
20.7.2.2.5, observers: get() const noexcept; operator*() const noexcept; operator->() const noexcept;
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long use_count() const noexcept; bool unique() const noexcept; explicit operator bool() const noexcept; template bool owner_before(shared_ptr const& b) const; template bool owner_before(weak_ptr const& b) const; }; // 20.7.2.2.6, shared_ptr creation template shared_ptr make_shared(Args&&... args); template shared_ptr allocate_shared(const A& a, Args&&... args); // 20.7.2.2.7, shared_ptr comparisons: template bool operator==(const shared_ptr& a, const shared_ptr& b) noexcept; template bool operator!=(const shared_ptr& a, const shared_ptr& b) noexcept; template bool operator(const shared_ptr& a, const shared_ptr& b) noexcept; template bool operator=(const shared_ptr& a, const shared_ptr& b) noexcept; template bool operator==(const shared_ptr& a, nullptr_t) noexcept; template bool operator==(nullptr_t, const shared_ptr& b) noexcept; template bool operator!=(const shared_ptr& a, nullptr_t) noexcept; template bool operator!=(nullptr_t, const shared_ptr& b) noexcept; template bool operator=(nullptr_t, const shared_ptr& b) noexcept; // 20.7.2.2.8, shared_ptr specialized algorithms: template void swap(shared_ptr& a, shared_ptr& b) noexcept; // 20.7.2.2.9, shared_ptr casts:
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template shared_ptr static_pointer_cast(const shared_ptr& r) noexcept; template shared_ptr dynamic_pointer_cast(const shared_ptr& r) noexcept; template shared_ptr const_pointer_cast(const shared_ptr& r) noexcept; // 20.7.2.2.10, shared_ptr get_deleter: template D* get_deleter(const shared_ptr& p) noexcept; // 20.7.2.2.11, shared_ptr I/O: template basic_ostream& operator 1), there are no side effects. — Otherwise, if *this owns an object p and a deleter d, d(p) is called. — Otherwise, *this owns a pointer p, and delete p is called.
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[ Note: Since the destruction of *this decreases the number of instances that share ownership with *this by one, after *this has been destroyed all shared_ptr instances that shared ownership with *this will report a use_count() that is one less than its previous value. — end note ] 20.7.2.2.3
shared_ptr assignment
[util.smartptr.shared.assign]
shared_ptr& operator=(const shared_ptr& r) noexcept; template shared_ptr& operator=(const shared_ptr& r) noexcept; template shared_ptr& operator=(auto_ptr&& r); 1
Effects: Equivalent to shared_ptr(r).swap(*this).
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Returns: *this.
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[ Note: The use count updates caused by the temporary object construction and destruction are not observable side effects, so the implementation may meet the effects (and the implied guarantees) via different means, without creating a temporary. In particular, in the example: shared_ptr p(new int); shared_ptr q(p); p = p; q = p;
both assignments may be no-ops. — end note ] shared_ptr& operator=(shared_ptr&& r) noexcept; template shared_ptr& operator=(shared_ptr&& r) noexcept;
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Effects: Equivalent to shared_ptr(std::move(r)).swap(*this).
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Returns: *this. template shared_ptr& operator=(unique_ptr&& r);
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Effects: Equivalent to shared_ptr(std::move(r)).swap(*this).
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Returns: *this 20.7.2.2.4
shared_ptr modifiers
[util.smartptr.shared.mod]
void swap(shared_ptr& r) noexcept; 1
Effects: Exchanges the contents of *this and r. void reset() noexcept;
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Effects: Equivalent to shared_ptr().swap(*this). template void reset(Y* p);
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Effects: Equivalent to shared_ptr(p).swap(*this). template void reset(Y* p, D d);
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Effects: Equivalent to shared_ptr(p, d).swap(*this). template void reset(Y* p, D d, A a);
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Effects: Equivalent to shared_ptr(p, d, a).swap(*this). 20.7.2.2.5
shared_ptr observers
[util.smartptr.shared.obs]
T* get() const noexcept; 1
Returns: the stored pointer. T& operator*() const noexcept;
2
Requires: get() != 0.
3
Returns: *get().
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Remarks: When T is void, it is unspecified whether this member function is declared. If it is declared, it is unspecified what its return type is, except that the declaration (although not necessarily the definition) of the function shall be well formed. T* operator->() const noexcept;
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Requires: get() != 0.
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Returns: get().
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long use_count() const noexcept; 7
Returns: the number of shared_ptr objects, *this included, that share ownership with *this, or 0 when *this is empty.
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[ Note: use_count() is not necessarily efficient. — end note ] bool unique() const noexcept;
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Returns: use_count() == 1. [ Note: unique() may be faster than use_count(). If you are using unique() to implement copy on write, do not rely on a specific value when get() == 0. — end note ] explicit operator bool() const noexcept;
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Returns: get() != 0. template bool owner_before(shared_ptr const& b) const; template bool owner_before(weak_ptr const& b) const;
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Returns: An unspecified value such that — x.owner_before(y) defines a strict weak ordering as defined in 25.4; — under the equivalence relation defined by owner_before, !a.owner_before(b) && !b.owner_before(a), two shared_ptr or weak_ptr instances are equivalent if and only if they share ownership or are both empty. 20.7.2.2.6
shared_ptr creation
[util.smartptr.shared.create]
template shared_ptr make_shared(Args&&... args); template shared_ptr allocate_shared(const A& a, Args&&... args); 1
Requires: The expression ::new (pv) T(std::forward(args)...), where pv has type void* and points to storage suitable to hold an object of type T, shall be well formed. A shall be an allocator (17.6.3.5). The copy constructor and destructor of A shall not throw exceptions.
2
Effects: Allocates memory suitable for an object of type T and constructs an object in that memory via the placement new expression ::new (pv) T(std::forward(args)...). The template allocate_shared uses a copy of a to allocate memory. If an exception is thrown, the functions have no effect.
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Returns: A shared_ptr instance that stores and owns the address of the newly constructed object of type T.
4
Postconditions: get() != 0 && use_count() == 1
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Throws: bad_alloc, or an exception thrown from A::allocate or from the constructor of T.
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Remarks: Implementations are encouraged, but not required, to perform no more than one memory allocation. [ Note: This provides efficiency equivalent to an intrusive smart pointer. — end note ]
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[ Note: These functions will typically allocate more memory than sizeof(T) to allow for internal bookkeeping structures such as the reference counts. — end note ]
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shared_ptr comparison
[util.smartptr.shared.cmp]
template bool operator==(const shared_ptr& a, const shared_ptr& b) noexcept; 1
Returns: a.get() == b.get(). template bool operatorswap(r).
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Returns: The previous value of *p.
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Throws: Nothing. template bool atomic_compare_exchange_weak( shared_ptr* p, shared_ptr* v, shared_ptr w);
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Requires: p shall not be null.
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Returns: atomic_compare_exchange_weak_explicit(p, v, w, memory_order_seq_cst, memory_order_seq_cst).
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Throws: Nothing. template bool atomic_compare_exchange_strong( shared_ptr* p, shared_ptr* v, shared_ptr w);
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Returns: atomic_compare_exchange_strong_explicit(p, v, w, memory_order_seq_cst, memory_order_seq_cst). template bool atomic_compare_exchange_weak_explicit( shared_ptr* p, shared_ptr* v, shared_ptr w, memory_order success, memory_order failure); template bool atomic_compare_exchange_strong_explicit( shared_ptr* p, shared_ptr* v, shared_ptr w, memory_order success, memory_order failure);
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Requires: p shall not be null.
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Requires: failure shall not be memory_order_release, memory_order_acq_rel, or stronger than success.
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Effects: If *p is equivalent to *v, assigns w to *p and has synchronization semantics corresponding to the value of success, otherwise assigns *p to *v and has synchronization semantics corresponding to the value of failure.
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Returns: true if *p was equivalent to *v, false otherwise.
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Throws: Nothing.
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Remarks: two shared_ptr objects are equivalent if they store the same pointer value and share ownership.
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Remarks: the weak forms may fail spuriously. See 29.6. 20.7.2.6
Smart pointer hash support
[util.smartptr.hash]
template struct hash; 1
Requires: The template specialization shall meet the requirements of class template hash (20.8.12). For an object p of type UP, where UP is unique_ptr, hash()(p) shall evaluate to the same value as hash()(p.get()). The specialization hash shall be well-formed. template struct hash;
2
Requires: The template specialization shall meet the requirements of class template hash (20.8.12). For an object p of type shared_ptr, hash()(p) shall evaluate to the same value as hash()(p.get()).
20.8 1
2
Function objects
[function.objects]
A function object type is an object type (3.9) that can be the type of the postfix-expression in a function call (5.2.2, 13.3.1.1).229 A function object is an object of a function object type. In the places where one would expect to pass a pointer to a function to an algorithmic template (Clause 25), the interface is specified to accept a function object. This not only makes algorithmic templates work with pointers to functions, but also enables them to work with arbitrary function objects. Header synopsis namespace std { // D.8.1, base (deprecated): template struct unary_function; template struct binary_function; // 20.8.3, reference_wrapper: template class reference_wrapper; template template template template
reference_wrapper ref(T&) noexcept; reference_wrapper cref(const T&) noexcept; void ref(const T&&) = delete; void cref(const T&&) = delete;
229) Such a type is a function pointer or a class type which has a member operator() or a class type which has a conversion to a pointer to function.
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template reference_wrapper ref(reference_wrapper) noexcept; template reference_wrapper cref(reference_wrapper) noexcept; // 20.8.4, arithmetic template template template template template template
operations: struct plus; struct minus; struct multiplies; struct divides; struct modulus; struct negate;
// 20.8.5, comparisons: template struct template struct template struct template struct template struct template struct
equal_to; not_equal_to; greater; less; greater_equal; less_equal;
// 20.8.6, logical operations: template struct logical_and; template struct logical_or; template struct logical_not; // 20.8.7, bitwise template struct bit_xor;
// 20.8.8, negators: template template unary_negate template template binary_negate
class unary_negate; not1(const Predicate&); class binary_negate; not2(const Predicate&);
// 20.8.9, bind: template struct is_bind_expression; template struct is_placeholder; template bind(F&&, BoundArgs&&...);
namespace placeholders { // M is the implementation-defined number of placeholders extern unspecified _1; extern unspecified _2; . . . extern unspecified _M; }
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// D.9, binders (deprecated): template class binder1st; template binder1st bind1st(const Fn&, const T&); template class binder2nd; template binder2nd bind2nd(const Fn&, const T&); // D.8.2.1, adaptors (deprecated): template class pointer_to_unary_function; template pointer_to_unary_function ptr_fun(Result (*)(Arg)); template class pointer_to_binary_function; template pointer_to_binary_function ptr_fun(Result (*)(Arg1,Arg2)); // D.8.2.2, adaptors (deprecated): template class mem_fun_t; template class mem_fun1_t; template mem_fun_t mem_fun(S (T::*f)()); template mem_fun1_t mem_fun(S (T::*f)(A)); template class mem_fun_ref_t; template class mem_fun1_ref_t; template mem_fun_ref_t mem_fun_ref(S (T::*f)()); template mem_fun1_ref_t mem_fun_ref(S (T::*f)(A)); template class const_mem_fun_t; template class const_mem_fun1_t; template const_mem_fun_t mem_fun(S (T::*f)() const); template const_mem_fun1_t mem_fun(S (T::*f)(A) const); template class const_mem_fun_ref_t; template class const_mem_fun1_ref_t; template const_mem_fun_ref_t mem_fun_ref(S (T::*f)() const); template const_mem_fun1_ref_t mem_fun_ref(S (T::*f)(A) const); // 20.8.10, member function adaptors: template unspecified mem_fn(R T::*); template unspecified mem_fn(R (T::*)(Args...)); template unspecified mem_fn(R (T::*)(Args...) const); template unspecified mem_fn(R (T::*)(Args...) volatile); template
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unspecified template (T::*)(Args...) const volatile &&);
// 20.8.11 polymorphic function wrappers: class bad_function_call; template class function; // undefined template class function; template void swap(function&, function&); template bool operator==(const function&, nullptr_t); template bool operator==(nullptr_t, const function&); template bool operator!=(const function&, nullptr_t); template bool operator!=(nullptr_t, const function&); // 20.8.12, hash function base template: template struct hash; // Hash function specializations template struct hash; template struct hash; template struct hash; template struct hash; template struct hash; template struct hash; template struct hash; template struct hash; template struct hash; template struct hash; template struct hash; template struct hash; template struct hash; template struct hash; template struct hash;
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template struct hash; template struct hash; template struct hash; template struct hash; } 3
[ Example: If a C++ program wants to have a by-element addition of two vectors a and b containing double and put the result into a, it can do: transform(a.begin(), a.end(), b.begin(), a.begin(), plus());
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— end example ] [ Example: To negate every element of a: transform(a.begin(), a.end(), a.begin(), negate());
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— end example ] To enable adaptors and other components to manipulate function objects that take one or two arguments it is required that the function objects correspondingly provide typedefs argument_type and result_type for function objects that take one argument and first_argument_type, second_argument_type, and result_type for function objects that take two arguments.
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[func.def]
The following definitions apply to this Clause: A call signature is the name of a return type followed by a parenthesized comma-separated list of zero or more argument types. A callable type is a function object type (20.8) or a pointer to member. A callable object is an object of a callable type. A call wrapper type is a type that holds a callable object and supports a call operation that forwards to that object. A call wrapper is an object of a call wrapper type. A target object is the callable object held by a call wrapper.
20.8.2 1
Definitions
Requirements
[func.require]
Define INVOKE (f, t1, t2, ..., tN) as follows: — (t1.*f)(t2, ..., tN) when f is a pointer to a member function of a class T and t1 is an object of type T or a reference to an object of type T or a reference to an object of a type derived from T; — ((*t1).*f)(t2, ..., tN) when f is a pointer to a member function of a class T and t1 is not one of the types described in the previous item; — t1.*f when N == 1 and f is a pointer to member data of a class T and t1 is an object of type T or a reference to an object of type T or a reference to an object of a type derived from T; — (*t1).*f when N == 1 and f is a pointer to member data of a class T and t1 is not one of the types described in the previous item; — f(t1, t2, ..., tN) in all other cases.
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Define INVOKE (f, t1, t2, ..., tN, R) as INVOKE (f, t1, t2, ..., tN) implicitly converted to R. If a call wrapper (20.8.1) has a weak result type the type of its member type result_type is based on the type T of the wrapper’s target object (20.8.1): — if T is a pointer to function type, result_type shall be a synonym for the return type of T; — if T is a pointer to member function, result_type shall be a synonym for the return type of T; § 20.8.2
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— if T is a class type with a member type result_type, then result_type shall be a synonym for T::result_type; — otherwise result_type shall not be defined. 4
Every call wrapper (20.8.1) shall be MoveConstructible. A simple call wrapper is a call wrapper that is CopyConstructible and CopyAssignable and whose copy constructor, move constructor, and assignment operator do not throw exceptions. A forwarding call wrapper is a call wrapper that can be called with an arbitrary argument list and delivers the arguments to the wrapped callable object as references. This forwarding step shall ensure that rvalue arguments are delivered as rvalue-references and lvalue arguments are delivered as lvalue-references. [ Note: In a typical implementation forwarding call wrappers have an overloaded function call operator of the form template R operator()(UnBoundArgs&&... unbound_args) cv-qual ;
— end note ]
20.8.3
Class template reference_wrapper
namespace std { template class reference_wrapper { public : // types typedef T type; typedef see below result_type; typedef see below argument_type; typedef see below first_argument_type; typedef see below second_argument_type;
[refwrap]
// // // //
not not not not
always always always always
defined defined defined defined
// construct/copy/destroy reference_wrapper(T&) noexcept; reference_wrapper(T&&) = delete; // do not bind to temporary objects reference_wrapper(const reference_wrapper& x) noexcept; // assignment reference_wrapper& operator=(const reference_wrapper& x) noexcept; // access operator T& () const noexcept; T& get() const noexcept; // invocation template typename result_of::type operator() (ArgTypes&&...) const; }; } 1
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3
reference_wrapper is a CopyConstructible and CopyAssignable wrapper around a reference to an object or function of type T. reference_wrapper has a weak result type (20.8.2). If T is a function type, result_type shall be a synonym for the return type of T. The template instantiation reference_wrapper shall define a nested type named argument_type as a synonym for T1 only if the type T is any of the following: — a function type or a pointer to function type taking one argument of type T1 § 20.8.3
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— a pointer to member function R T0::f cv (where cv represents the member function’s cv-qualifiers); the type T1 is cv T0* — a class type with a member type argument_type; the type T1 is T::argument_type. 4
The template instantiation reference_wrapper shall define two nested types named first_argument_type and second_argument_type as synonyms for T1 and T2, respectively, only if the type T is any of the following: — a function type or a pointer to function type taking two arguments of types T1 and T2 — a pointer to member function R T0::f(T2) cv (where cv represents the member function’s cv-qualifiers); the type T1 is cv T0* — a class type with member types first_argument_type and second_argument_type; the type T1 is T::first_argument_type. and the type T2 is T::second_argument_type. 20.8.3.1
reference_wrapper construct/copy/destroy
[refwrap.const]
reference_wrapper(T& t) noexcept; 1
Effects: Constructs a reference_wrapper object that stores a reference to t. reference_wrapper(const reference_wrapper& x) noexcept;
2
Effects: Constructs a reference_wrapper object that stores a reference to x.get(). 20.8.3.2
reference_wrapper assignment
[refwrap.assign]
reference_wrapper& operator=(const reference_wrapper& x) noexcept; 1
Postconditions: *this stores a reference to x.get(). 20.8.3.3
reference_wrapper access
[refwrap.access]
operator T& () const noexcept; 1
Returns: The stored reference. T& get() const noexcept;
2
Returns: The stored reference. 20.8.3.4
reference_wrapper invocation
[refwrap.invoke]
template typename result_of::type operator()(ArgTypes&&... args) const; 1
Returns: INVOKE (get(), std::forward(args)...). (20.8.2)
2
Remark: operator() is described for exposition only. Implementations are not required to provide an actual reference_wrapper::operator(). Implementations are permitted to support reference_wrapper function invocation through multiple overloaded operators or through other means.
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reference_wrapper helper functions
[refwrap.helpers]
template reference_wrapper ref(T& t) noexcept; 1
Returns: reference_wrapper(t) template reference_wrapper ref(reference_wrappert) noexcept;
2
Returns: ref(t.get()) template reference_wrapper cref(const T& t) noexcept;
3
Returns: reference_wrapper (t) template reference_wrapper cref(reference_wrapper t) noexcept;
4
Returns: cref(t.get());
20.8.4 1
Arithmetic operations
[arithmetic.operations]
The library provides basic function object classes for all of the arithmetic operators in the language (5.6, 5.7). template struct plus { T operator()(const T& x, const T& y) const; typedef T first_argument_type; typedef T second_argument_type; typedef T result_type; };
2
operator() returns x + y. template struct minus { T operator()(const T& x, const T& y) const; typedef T first_argument_type; typedef T second_argument_type; typedef T result_type; };
3
operator() returns x - y. template struct multiplies { T operator()(const T& x, const T& y) const; typedef T first_argument_type; typedef T second_argument_type; typedef T result_type; };
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operator() returns x * y.
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template struct divides { T operator()(const T& x, const T& y) const; typedef T first_argument_type; typedef T second_argument_type; typedef T result_type; }; 5
operator() returns x / y. template struct modulus { T operator()(const T& x, const T& y) const; typedef T first_argument_type; typedef T second_argument_type; typedef T result_type; };
6
operator() returns x % y. template struct negate { T operator()(const T& x) const; typedef T argument_type; typedef T result_type; };
7
operator() returns -x.
20.8.5 1
Comparisons
[comparisons]
The library provides basic function object classes for all of the comparison operators in the language (5.9, 5.10). template struct equal_to { bool operator()(const T& x, const T& y) const; typedef T first_argument_type; typedef T second_argument_type; typedef bool result_type; };
2
operator() returns x == y. template struct not_equal_to { bool operator()(const T& x, const T& y) const; typedef T first_argument_type; typedef T second_argument_type; typedef bool result_type; };
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operator() returns x != y. template struct greater { bool operator()(const T& x, const T& y) const; typedef T first_argument_type; typedef T second_argument_type; typedef bool result_type; };
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N3376
operator() returns x > y. template struct less { bool operator()(const T& x, const T& y) const; typedef T first_argument_type; typedef T second_argument_type; typedef bool result_type; };
5
operator() returns x < y. template struct greater_equal { bool operator()(const T& x, const T& y) const; typedef T first_argument_type; typedef T second_argument_type; typedef bool result_type; };
6
operator() returns x >= y. template struct less_equal { bool operator()(const T& x, const T& y) const; typedef T first_argument_type; typedef T second_argument_type; typedef bool result_type; };
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In the text that follows, the following names have the following meanings: — FD is the type decay::type, — fd is an lvalue of type FD constructed from std::forward(f), — Ti is the ith type in the template parameter back BoundArgs, — TiD is the type decay::type, — ti is the ith argument in the function parameter pack bound_args, — tid is an lvalue of type TiD constructed from std::forward(ti), — Uj is the j th deduced type of the UnBoundArgs&&... parameter of the forwarding call wrapper, and — uj is the j th argument associated with Uj. template unspecified bind(F&& f, BoundArgs&&... bound_args);
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Placeholders
[func.bind.place]
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All placeholder types shall be DefaultConstructible and CopyConstructible, and their default constructors and copy/move constructors shall not throw exceptions. It is implementation-defined whether placeholder types are CopyAssignable. CopyAssignable placeholders’ copy assignment operators shall not throw exceptions.
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Function template mem_fn
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const &); volatile &); const volatile &); &&); const &&); volatile &&); const volatile &&);
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Polymorphic function wrappers
[func.wrap]
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This subclause describes a polymorphic wrapper class that encapsulates arbitrary callable objects. 20.8.11.1 Class bad_function_call [func.wrap.badcall]
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bad_function_call constructor
[func.wrap.badcall.const]
bad_function_call() noexcept; 1
Effects: constructs a bad_function_call object. 20.8.11.2
Class template function
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Effects: If !f, *this has no target; otherwise, move-constructs the target of f into the target of *this, leaving f in a valid state with an unspecified value. template function(F f); template function(allocator_arg_t, const A& a, F f);
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[func.wrap.func.mod]
void swap(function& other) noexcept; 1
Effects: interchanges the targets of *this and other. template void assign(F&& f, const A& a);
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function capacity
[func.wrap.func.cap]
explicit operator bool() const noexcept; 1
Returns: true if *this has a target, otherwise false. 20.8.11.2.4
function invocation
[func.wrap.func.inv]
R operator()(ArgTypes... args) const 1
Effects: INVOKE (f, std::forward(args)..., R) (20.8.2), where f is the target object (20.8.1) of *this.
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function target access
[func.wrap.func.targ]
const std::type_info& target_type() const noexcept; 1
Returns: If *this has a target of type T, typeid(T); otherwise, typeid(void). template T* target() noexcept; template const T* target() const noexcept;
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null pointer comparison operators
[func.wrap.func.nullptr]
template bool operator==(const function& f, nullptr_t) noexcept; template bool operator==(nullptr_t, const function& f) noexcept; 1
Returns: !f. template bool operator!=(const function& f, nullptr_t) noexcept; template bool operator!=(nullptr_t, const function& f) noexcept;
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[func.wrap.func.alg]
template void swap(function& f1, function& f2); 1
Effects: f1.swap(f2);
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Class template hash
[unord.hash]
The unordered associative containers defined in 23.5 use specializations of the class template hash as the default hash function. For all object types Key for which there exists a specialization hash, the instantiation hash shall: — satisfy the Hash requirements (17.6.3.4), with Key as the function call argument type, the DefaultConstructible requirements (Table 19), the CopyAssignable requirements (Table 23), — be swappable (17.6.3.2) for lvalues, — provide two nested types result_type and argument_type which shall be synonyms for size_t and Key, respectively, — satisfy the requirement that if k1 == k2 is true, h(k1) == h(k2) is also true, where h is an object of type hash and k1 and k2 are objects of type Key; — satisfy the requirement that the expression h(k), where h is an object of type hash and k is an object of type Key, shall not throw an exception unless hash is a user-defined specialization that depends on at least one user-defined type. template template template template template template template template template template template template template template template template template template template
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Requires: the template specializations shall meet the requirements of class template hash (20.8.12).
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Metaprogramming and type traits
[meta]
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This subclause describes components used by programs, particularly in templates, to support the widest possible range of types, optimise template code usage, detect type related user errors, and perform type inference and transformation at compile time. It includes type classification traits, type property inspection traits, and type transformations. The type classification traits describe a complete taxonomy § 20.9
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Requirements
[meta.rqmts]
A UnaryTypeTrait describes a property of a type. It shall be a class template that takes one template type argument and, optionally, additional arguments that help define the property being described. It shall be DefaultConstructible, CopyConstructible, and publicly and unambiguously derived, directly or indirectly, from its BaseCharacteristic, which is a specialization of the template integral_constant (20.9.3), with the arguments to the template integral_constant determined by the requirements for the particular property being described. The member names of the BaseCharacteristic shall not be hidden and shall be unambiguously available in the UnaryTypeTrait. A BinaryTypeTrait describes a relationship between two types. It shall be a class template that takes two template type arguments and, optionally, additional arguments that help define the relationship being described. It shall be DefaultConstructible, CopyConstructible, and publicly and unambiguously derived, directly or indirectly, from its BaseCharacteristic, which is a specialization of the template integral_constant (20.9.3), with the arguments to the template integral_constant determined by the requirements for the particular relationship being described. The member names of the BaseCharacteristic shall not be hidden and shall be unambiguously available in the BinaryTypeTrait. A TransformationTrait modifies a property of a type. It shall be a class template that takes one template type argument and, optionally, additional arguments that help define the modification. It shall define a nested type named type, which shall be a synonym for the modified type.
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Header synopsis
[meta.type.synop]
namespace std { // 20.9.3, helper class: template struct integral_constant; typedef integral_constant true_type; typedef integral_constant false_type; // 20.9.4.1, primary type categories: template struct is_void; template struct is_integral; template struct is_floating_point; template struct is_array; template struct is_pointer; template struct is_lvalue_reference; template struct is_rvalue_reference; template struct is_member_object_pointer; template struct is_member_function_pointer; template struct is_enum; template struct is_union; template struct is_class; template struct is_function; // 20.9.4.2, composite type categories: template struct is_reference; template struct is_arithmetic; template struct is_fundamental; template struct is_object; template struct is_scalar; template struct is_compound; template struct is_member_pointer;
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// 20.9.4.3, type properties: template struct template struct template struct template struct template struct template struct template struct template struct template struct template struct
is_const; is_volatile; is_trivial; is_trivially_copyable; is_standard_layout; is_pod; is_literal_type; is_empty; is_polymorphic; is_abstract;
template struct is_signed; template struct is_unsigned; template template template template
struct is_constructible; struct is_default_constructible; struct is_copy_constructible; struct is_move_constructible;
template struct is_assignable; template struct is_copy_assignable; template struct is_move_assignable; template struct is_destructible; template template template template
struct is_trivially_constructible; struct is_trivially_default_constructible; struct is_trivially_copy_constructible; struct is_trivially_move_constructible;
template template template template
struct is_trivially_assignable; struct is_trivially_copy_assignable; struct is_trivially_move_assignable; struct is_trivially_destructible;
template template template template
struct is_nothrow_constructible; struct is_nothrow_default_constructible; struct is_nothrow_copy_constructible; struct is_nothrow_move_constructible;
template struct is_nothrow_assignable; template struct is_nothrow_copy_assignable; template struct is_nothrow_move_assignable; template struct is_nothrow_destructible; template struct has_virtual_destructor; // 20.9.5, type property queries: template struct alignment_of; template struct rank; template struct extent; // 20.9.6, type relations: template struct is_same;
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template struct is_base_of; template struct is_convertible; // 20.9.7.1, const-volatile modifications: template struct remove_const; template struct remove_volatile; template struct remove_cv; template struct add_const; template struct add_volatile; template struct add_cv; // 20.9.7.2, reference template template template
modifications: struct remove_reference; struct add_lvalue_reference; struct add_rvalue_reference;
// 20.9.7.3, sign modifications: template struct make_signed; template struct make_unsigned; // 20.9.7.4, array modifications: template struct remove_extent; template struct remove_all_extents; // 20.9.7.5, pointer modifications: template struct remove_pointer; template struct add_pointer; // 20.9.7.6, other transformations: template // see 20.9.7.6 struct aligned_storage; template struct aligned_union; template struct decay; template struct enable_if; template struct conditional; template struct common_type; template struct underlying_type; template class result_of; // not defined template class result_of; } // namespace std 1
The behavior of a program that adds specializations for any of the class templates defined in this subclause is undefined unless otherwise specified.
20.9.3
Helper classes
[meta.help]
namespace std { template struct integral_constant { static constexpr T value = v; typedef T value_type; typedef integral_constant type; constexpr operator value_type() { return value; } }; typedef integral_constant true_type; typedef integral_constant false_type;
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The class template integral_constant and its associated typedefs true_type and false_type are used as base classes to define the interface for various type traits.
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Unary type traits
[meta.unary]
This sub-clause contains templates that may be used to query the properties of a type at compile time. Each of these templates shall be a UnaryTypeTrait (20.9.1) with a BaseCharacteristic of true_type if the corresponding condition is true, otherwise false_type. 20.9.4.1 Primary type categories [meta.unary.cat] The primary type categories correspond to the descriptions given in section 3.9 of the C++ standard. For any given type T, the result of applying one of these templates to T and to cv-qualified T shall yield the same result. [ Note: For any given type T, exactly one of the primary type categories has a value member that evaluates to true. — end note ] Table 47 — Primary type category predicates
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Template template struct is_void; template struct is_integral; template struct is_floating_point; template struct is_array;
Condition T is void
template struct is_pointer;
T is a pointer type (3.9.2)
template struct is_lvalue_reference; template struct is_rvalue_reference; template struct is_member_object_pointer; template struct is_member_function_pointer; template struct is_enum; template struct is_union; template struct is_class; template struct is_function;
T is an lvalue reference type (8.3.2) T is an rvalue reference type (8.3.2) T is a pointer to non-static data member T is a pointer to non-static member function
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T is an integral type (3.9.1) T is a floating point type (3.9.1) T is an array type (3.9.2) of known or unknown extent
Class template array (23.3.2) is not an array type. Includes pointers to functions but not pointers to non-static members.
T is an enumeration type (3.9.2) T is a union type (3.9.2) T is a class type but not a union type (3.9.2) T is a function type (3.9.2)
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scriptions given in section 3.9. For any given type T, the result of applying one of these templates to T, and to cv-qualified T shall yield the same result. Table 48 — Composite type category predicates Template template struct is_reference; template struct is_arithmetic; template struct is_fundamental; template struct is_object; template struct is_scalar; template struct is_compound; template struct is_member_pointer;
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Condition T is an lvalue reference or an rvalue reference T is an arithmetic type (3.9.1) T is a fundamental type (3.9.1) T is an object type (3.9)
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T is a scalar type (3.9) T is a compound type (3.9.2) T is a pointer to non-static data member or non-static member function
Type properties
[meta.unary.prop]
These templates provide access to some of the more important properties of types. It is unspecified whether the library defines any full or partial specializations of any of these templates. For all of the class templates X declared in this Clause, instantiating that template with a template-argument that is a class template specialization may result in the implicit instantiation of the template argument if and only if the semantics of X require that the argument must be a complete type. Table 49 — Type property predicates Template template struct is_const; template struct is_volatile; template struct is_trivial;
Condition T is const-qualified (3.9.3)
template struct is_trivially_copyable;
T is a trivially copyable type (3.9)
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Preconditions
remove_all_extents::type shall be a complete type or (possibly cv-qualified) void. remove_all_extents::type shall be a complete type or (possibly cv-qualified) void.
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Table 49 — Type property predicates (continued) Template template struct is_standard_layout;
Condition T is a standard-layout type (3.9)
template struct is_pod;
T is a POD type (3.9)
template struct is_literal_type;
T is a literal type (3.9)
template struct is_empty;
template struct is_polymorphic;
T is a class type, but not a union type, with no non-static data members other than bit-fields of length 0, no virtual member functions, no virtual base classes, and no base class B for which is_empty::value is false. T is a polymorphic class (10.3)
template struct is_abstract;
T is an abstract class (10.4)
template struct is_signed;
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template struct is_unsigned; template
template struct is_default_constructible;
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Preconditions remove_all_extents::type shall be a complete type or (possibly cv-qualified) void. remove_all_extents::type shall be a complete type or (possibly cv-qualified) void. remove_all_extents::type shall be a complete type or (possibly cv-qualified) void. If T is a non-union class type, T shall be a complete type.
If T is a non-union class type, T shall be a complete type. If T is a non-union class type, T shall be a complete type.
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Table 49 — Type property predicates (continued) Template template struct is_copy_constructible;
Condition is_constructible::value is true.
template struct is_move_constructible;
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template struct is_assignable;
The expression declval() = declval() is well-formed when treated as an unevaluated operand (Clause 5). Access checking is performed as if in a context unrelated to T and U. Only the validity of the immediate context of the assignment expression is considered. [ Note: The compilation of the expression can result in side effects such as the instantiation of class template specializations and function template specializations, the generation of implicitly-defined functions, and so on. Such side effects are not in the “immediate context” and can result in the program being ill-formed. — end note ] is_assignable::value is true.
template struct is_copy_assignable;
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is_assignable::value is true.
Preconditions T shall be a complete type, (possibly cv-qualified) void, or an array of unknown bound. T shall be a complete type, (possibly cv-qualified) void, or an array of unknown bound. T and U shall be complete types, (possibly cv-qualified) void, or arrays of unknown bound.
T shall be a complete type, (possibly cv-qualified) void, or an array of unknown bound. T shall be a complete type, (possibly cv-qualified) void, or an array of unknown bound.
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Table 49 — Type property predicates (continued) Template template struct is_destructible;
template struct is_trivially_default_constructible;
Condition For a complete type T and given template struct test { U u; };, test::˜test() is not deleted. is_constructible::value is true and the variable definition for is_constructible, as defined below, is known to call no operation that is not trivial ( 3.9, 12). is_trivially_constructible::value is true.
template struct is_trivially_copy_constructible;
is_trivially_constructible::value is true.
template struct is_trivially_move_constructible;
is_trivially_constructible::value is true.
template struct is_trivially_assignable;
template struct is_trivially_copy_assignable;
is_assignable::value is true and the assignment, as defined by is_assignable, is known to call no operation that is not trivial (3.9, 12). is_trivially_assignable::value is true.
template struct is_trivially_move_assignable;
is_trivially_assignable::value is true.
template struct is_trivially_destructible;
is_destructible::value is true and the indicated destructor is known to be trivial.
template
Preconditions T shall be a complete type, (possibly cv-qualified) void, or an array of unknown bound.
T and all types in the parameter pack Args shall be complete types, (possibly cv-qualified) void, or arrays of unknown bound. T shall be a complete type, (possibly cv-qualified) void, or an array of unknown bound. T shall be a complete type, (possibly cv-qualified) void, or an array of unknown bound. T shall be a complete type, (possibly cv-qualified) void, or an array of unknown bound. T and U shall be complete types, (possibly cv-qualified) void, or arrays of unknown bound.
T shall be a complete type, (possibly cv-qualified) void, or an array of unknown bound. T shall be a complete type, (possibly cv-qualified) void, or an array of unknown bound. T shall be a complete type, (possibly cv-qualified) void, or an array of unknown bound.
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Table 49 — Type property predicates (continued) Template template struct is_nothrow_constructible;
template struct is_nothrow_default_constructible;
Condition is_constructible::value is true and the variable definition for is_constructible, as defined below, is known not to throw any exceptions (5.3.7). is_nothrow_constructible::value is true.
template struct is_nothrow_copy_constructible;
is_nothrow_constructible::value is true.
template struct is_nothrow_move_constructible;
is_nothrow_constructible::value is true.
template struct is_nothrow_assignable;
is_assignable::value is true and the assignment is known not to throw any exceptions (5.3.7). is_nothrow_assignable::value is true.
template struct is_nothrow_copy_assignable;
template struct is_nothrow_move_assignable;
is_nothrow_assignable::value is true.
template struct is_nothrow_destructible;
is_destructible::value is true and the indicated destructor is known not to throw any exceptions (5.3.7). T has a virtual destructor (12.4)
template struct has_virtual_destructor;
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Preconditions T and all types in the parameter pack Args shall be complete types, (possibly cv-qualified) void, or arrays of unknown bound. T shall be a complete type, (possibly cv-qualified) void, or an array of unknown bound. T shall be a complete type, (possibly cv-qualified) void, or an array of unknown bound. T shall be a complete type, (possibly cv-qualified) void, or an array of unknown bound. T and U shall be complete types, (possibly cv-qualified) void, or arrays of unknown bound. T shall be a complete type, (possibly cv-qualified) void, or an array of unknown bound. T shall be a complete type, (possibly cv-qualified) void, or an array of unknown bound. T shall be a complete type, (possibly cv-qualified) void, or an array of unknown bound.
If T is a non-union class type, T shall be a complete type.
[ Example: is_const::value is_const::value is_const::value is_const::value
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// // // //
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— end example ] [ Example: remove_const::type
// // // //
volatile int const int* const int& int[3]
— end example ] Given the following function prototype: template typename add_rvalue_reference::type create();
the predicate condition for a template specialization is_constructible shall be satisfied if and only if the following variable definition would be well-formed for some invented variable t: T t(create()...);
[ Note: These tokens are never interpreted as a function declaration. — end note ] Access checking is performed as if in a context unrelated to T and any of the Args. Only the validity of the immediate context of the variable initialization is considered. [ Note: The evaluation of the initialization can result in side effects such as the instantiation of class template specializations and function template specializations, the generation of implicitly-defined functions, and so on. Such side effects are not in the “immediate context” and can result in the program being ill-formed. — end note ]
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Type property queries
[meta.unary.prop.query]
This sub-clause contains templates that may be used to query properties of types at compile time. Table 50 — Type property queries Template template struct alignment_of; template struct rank; template struct extent;
2
Value alignof(T). Requires:alignof(T) shall be a valid expression (5.3.6) If T names an array type, an integer value representing the number of dimensions of T; otherwise, 0. If T is not an array type, or if it has rank less than or equal to I, or if I is 0 and T has type “array of unknown bound of U”, then 0; otherwise, the bound (8.3.4) of the I’th dimension of T, where indexing of I is zero-based
[ Example: // the following assertions hold: assert(rank::value == 0); assert(rank::value == 1); assert(rank::value == 2);
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— end example ] [ Example: // the following assertions hold: assert(extent::value == 0); assert(extent::value == 2); assert(extent::value == 2);
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assert(extent::value == 0); assert((extent::value) == 0); assert((extent::value) == 0); assert((extent::value) == 4); assert((extent::value) == 4);
— end example ]
20.9.6 1 2
Relationships between types
[meta.rel]
This sub-clause contains templates that may be used to query relationships between types at compile time. Each of these templates shall be a BinaryTypeTrait (20.9.1) with a BaseCharacteristic of true_type if the corresponding condition is true, otherwise false_type. Table 51 — Type relationship predicates Template template struct is_same;
Condition T and U name the same type with the same cv-qualifications Base is a base class of Derived (10) without regard to cv-qualifiers or Base and Derived are not unions and name the same class type without regard to cv-qualifiers
template struct is_base_of;
template struct is_convertible;
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If Base and Derived are non-union class types and are different types (ignoring possible cv-qualifiers) then Derived shall be a complete type. [ Note: Base classes that are private, protected, or ambiguous are, nonetheless, base classes. — end note ] From and To shall be complete types, arrays of unknown bound, or (possibly cv-qualified) void types.
[ Example: struct struct struct struct
B {}; B1 : B {}; B2 : B {}; D : private B1, private B2 {};
is_base_of::value is_base_of::value is_base_of::value is_base_of::value is_base_of::value is_base_of::value is_base_of::value is_base_of::value 4
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Comments
// // // // // // // //
true true true true false false false false
— end example ] Given the following function prototype: template typename add_rvalue_reference::type create();
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the predicate condition for a template specialization is_convertible shall be satisfied if and only if the return expression in the following code would be well-formed, including any implicit conversions to the return type of the function: To test() { return create(); }
[ Note: This requirement gives well defined results for reference types, void types, array types, and function types. — end note ] Access checking is performed as if in a context unrelated to To and From. Only the validity of the immediate context of the expression of the return-statement (including conversions to the return type) is considered. [ Note: The evaluation of the conversion can result in side effects such as the instantiation of class template specializations and function template specializations, the generation of implicitly-defined functions, and so on. Such side effects are not in the “immediate context” and can result in the program being ill-formed. — end note ]
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Transformations between types
[meta.trans]
This sub-clause contains templates that may be used to transform one type to another following some predefined rule. Each of the templates in this subclause shall be a TransformationTrait (20.9.1). 20.9.7.1 Const-volatile modifications [meta.trans.cv] Table 52 — Const-volatile modifications Template template struct remove_const;
template struct remove_volatile;
template struct remove_cv;
template struct add_const; template struct add_volatile; template struct add_cv; 20.9.7.2
§ 20.9.7.2
Comments The member typedef type shall name the same type as T except that any top-level const-qualifier has been removed. [ Example:remove_const::type evaluates to volatile int, whereas remove_const::type evaluates to const int*. — end example ] The member typedef type shall name the same type as T except that any top-level volatile-qualifier has been removed. [ Example:remove_volatile::type evaluates to const int, whereas remove_volatile::type evaluates to volatile int*. — end example ] The member typedef type shall be the same as T except that any top-level cv-qualifier has been removed. [ Example:remove_cv::type evaluates to int, whereas remove_cv::type evaluates to const volatile int*. — end example ] If T is a reference, function, or top-level const-qualified type, then type shall name the same type as T, otherwise T const. If T is a reference, function, or top-level volatile-qualified type, then type shall name the same type as T, otherwise T volatile. The member typedef type shall name the same type as add_const::type.
Reference modifications
[meta.trans.ref]
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Table 53 — Reference modifications Template template struct remove_reference; template struct add_lvalue_reference; template struct add_rvalue_reference;
20.9.7.3
Comments If T has type “reference to T1” then the member typedef type shall name T1; otherwise, type shall name T. If T names an object or function type then the member typedef type shall name T&; otherwise, if T names a type “rvalue reference to T1” then the member typedef type shall name T1&; otherwise, type shall name T. If T names an object or function type then the member typedef type shall name T&&; otherwise, type shall name T. [ Note: This rule reflects the semantics of reference collapsing (8.3.2). For example, when a type T names a type T1&, the type add_rvalue_reference::type is not an rvalue reference. — end note ]
Sign modifications
[meta.trans.sign] Table 54 — Sign modifications
Template template struct make_signed;
template struct make_unsigned;
§ 20.9.7.3
Comments If T names a (possibly cv-qualified) signed integer type (3.9.1) then the member typedef type shall name the type T; otherwise, if T names a (possibly cv-qualified) unsigned integer type then type shall name the corresponding signed integer type, with the same cv-qualifiers as T; otherwise, type shall name the signed integer type with smallest rank (4.13) for which sizeof(T) == sizeof(type), with the same cv-qualifiers as T. Requires:T shall be a (possibly cv-qualified) integral type or enumeration but not a bool type. If T names a (possibly cv-qualified) unsigned integer type (3.9.1) then the member typedef type shall name the type T; otherwise, if T names a (possibly cv-qualified) signed integer type then type shall name the corresponding unsigned integer type, with the same cv-qualifiers as T; otherwise, type shall name the unsigned integer type with smallest rank (4.13) for which sizeof(T) == sizeof(type), with the same cv-qualifiers as T. Requires:T shall be a (possibly cv-qualified) integral type or enumeration but not a bool type.
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Array modifications
[meta.trans.arr] Table 55 — Array modifications
Template template struct remove_extent;
template struct remove_all_extents; 1
Comments If T names a type “array of U”, the member typedef type shall be U, otherwise T. [ Note: For multidimensional arrays, only the first array dimension is removed. For a type “array of const U”, the resulting type is const U. — end note ] If T is “multi-dimensional array of U”, the resulting member typedef type is U, otherwise T.
[Example // the following assertions hold: assert((is_same::value)); assert((is_same::value)); assert((is_same::value)); assert((is_same::value));
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— end example ] [Example // the following assertions hold: assert((is_same::value)); assert((is_same::value)); assert((is_same::value)); assert((is_same::value));
— end example ] 20.9.7.5 Pointer modifications
[meta.trans.ptr] Table 56 — Pointer modifications
Template template struct remove_pointer; template struct add_pointer;
§ 20.9.7.5
Comments If T has type “(possibly cv-qualified) pointer to T1” then the member typedef type shall name T1; otherwise, it shall name T. The member typedef type shall name the same type as remove_reference::type*.
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Other transformations
[meta.trans.other]
Table 57 — Other transformations Template template struct aligned_storage;
Condition Len shall not be zero. Align shall be equal to alignof(T) for some type T or to default-alignment.
template struct aligned_union;
At least one type is provided.
template struct decay;
template struct enable_if; template struct conditional;
§ 20.9.7.6
Comments The value of default-alignment shall be the most stringent alignment requirement for any C++ object type whose size is no greater than Len (3.9). The member typedef type shall be a POD type suitable for use as uninitialized storage for any object whose size is at most Len and whose alignment is a divisor of Align. The member typedef type shall be a POD type suitable for use as uninitialized storage for any object whose type is listed in Types; its size shall be at least Len. The static member alignment_value shall be an integral constant of type std::size_t whose value is the strictest alignment of all types listed in Types. Let U be remove_reference::type. If is_array::value is true, the member typedef type shall equal remove_extent::type*. If is_function::value is true, the member typedef type shall equal add_pointer::type. Otherwise the member typedef type equals remove_cv::type. [ Note: This behavior is similar to the lvalue-to-rvalue (4.1), array-to-pointer (4.2), and function-to-pointer (4.3) conversions applied when an lvalue expression is used as an rvalue, but also strips cv-qualifiers from class types in order to more closely model by-value argument passing. — end note ] If B is true, the member typedef type shall equal T; otherwise, there shall be no member typedef type. If B is true, the member typedef type shall equal T. If B is false, the member typedef type shall equal F.
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Table 57 — Other transformations (continued) Template template struct common_type;
template struct underlying_type; template struct result_of;
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Comments The member typedef type shall be defined as set out below. All types in the parameter pack T shall be complete or (possibly cv) void. A program may specialize this trait if at least one template parameter in the specialization is a user-defined type. [ Note: Such specializations are needed when only explicit conversions are desired among the template arguments. — end note ] The member typedef type shall name the underlying type of T. The member typedef type shall name the type decltype(INVOKE(declval(), declval()...))
T shall be an enumeration type (7.2) Fn shall be a callable type (20.8.1), reference to function, or reference to callable type. The expression decltype(INVOKE(declval(), declval()...)) shall be well formed.
[ Note: A typical implementation would define aligned_storage as: template struct aligned_storage { typedef struct { alignas(Alignment) unsigned char __data[Len]; } type; };
2 3
— end note ] It is implementation-defined whether any extended alignment is supported (3.11). The nested typedef common_type::type shall be defined as follows: template struct common_type; template struct common_type { typedef T type; }; template struct common_type { typedef decltype(true ? declval() : declval()) type; }; template struct common_type { typedef typename common_type::type type; };
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[ Example: Given these definitions: typedef bool (&PF1)(); typedef short (*PF2)(long); struct S { operator PF2() const; double operator()(char, int&); void fn(long) const; char data; }; typedef void (S::*PMF)(long) const; typedef char S::*PMD;
the following assertions will hold: static_assert(is_same::value, "Error!"); static_assert(is_same::value, "Error!"); static_assert(is_same::value, "Error!"); static_assert(is_same::value, "Error!"); static_assert(is_same::value, "Error!"); static_assert(is_same::value, "Error!");
— end example ]
20.10 20.10.1 1
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Compile-time rational arithmetic
[ratio]
In general
[ratio.general]
This subclause describes the ratio library. It provides a class template ratio which exactly represents any finite rational number with a numerator and denominator representable by compile-time constants of type intmax_t. Throughout this subclause, if the template argument types R1 and R2 are not specializations of the ratio template, the program is ill-formed.
20.10.2
Header synopsis
[ratio.syn]
namespace std { // 20.10.3, class template ratio template class ratio; // 20.10.4, ratio arithmetic template
using using using using
// 20.10.5, ratio comparison template
struct struct struct struct struct struct
ratio_add = see below ; ratio_subtract = see below ; ratio_multiply = see below ; ratio_divide = see below ;
ratio_equal; ratio_not_equal; ratio_less; ratio_less_equal; ratio_greater; ratio_greater_equal;
// 20.10.6, convenience SI typedefs typedef ratio yocto; typedef ratio zepto;
§ 20.10.2
// see below // see below
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ratio ratio ratio ratio ratio ratio ratio ratio ratio< 10, 1> ratio< 100, 1> ratio< 1000, 1> ratio< 1000000, 1> ratio< 1000000000, 1> ratio< 1000000000000, 1> ratio< 1000000000000000, 1> ratio< 1000000000000000000, 1> ratio< 1000000000000000000000, 1> ratio
atto; femto; pico; nano; micro; milli; centi; deci; deca; hecto; kilo; mega; giga; tera; peta; exa; zetta; yotta;
// see below // see below
}
20.10.3
Class template ratio
[ratio.ratio]
namespace std { template class ratio { public: typedef ratio type; static constexpr intmax_t num; static constexpr intmax_t den; }; } 1
2
If the template argument D is zero or the absolute values of either of the template arguments N and D is not representable by type intmax_t, the program is ill-formed. [ Note: These rules ensure that infinite ratios are avoided and that for any negative input, there exists a representable value of its absolute value which is positive. In a two’s complement representation, this excludes the most negative value. — end note ] The static data members num and den shall have the following values, where gcd represents the greatest common divisor of the absolute values of N and D: — num shall have the value sign(N) * sign(D) * abs(N) / gcd. — den shall have the value abs(D) / gcd.
20.10.4 1
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3
Arithmetic on ratios
[ratio.arithmetic]
Each of the alias templates ratio_add, ratio_subtract, ratio_multiply, and ratio_divide denotes the result of an arithmetic computation on two ratios R1 and R2. With X and Y computed (in the absence of arithmetic overflow) as specified by Table 58, each alias denotes a ratio such that U is the same as ratio::num and V is the same as ratio::den. If it is not possible to represent U or V with intmax_t, the program is ill-formed. Otherwise, an implementation should yield correct values of U and V. If it is not possible to represent X or Y with intmax_t, the program is ill-formed unless the implementation yields correct values of U and V. [ Example: static_assert(ratio_add::num == 1, "1/3+1/6 == 1/2"); static_assert(ratio_add::den == 2, "1/3+1/6 == 1/2"); static_assert(ratio_multiply::num == 1, "1/3*3/2 == 1/2");
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Table 58 — Expressions used to perform ratio arithmetic Type ratio_add ratio_subtract ratio_multiply ratio_divide
Value of X R1::num * R2::den + R2::num * R1::den R1::num * R2::den R2::num * R1::den R1::num * R2::num R1::num * R2::den
Value of Y R1::den * R2::den R1::den * R2::den R1::den * R2::den R1::den * R2::num
static_assert(ratio_multiply::den == 2, "1/3*3/2 == 1/2"); // The following cases may cause the program to be ill-formed under some implementations static_assert(ratio_add::num == 2, "1/MAX+1/MAX == 2/MAX"); static_assert(ratio_add::den == INT_MAX, "1/MAX+1/MAX == 2/MAX"); static_assert(ratio_multiply::num == 1, "1/MAX * MAX/2 == 1/2"); static_assert(ratio_multiply::den == 2, "1/MAX * MAX/2 == 1/2");
— end example ]
20.10.5
Comparison of ratios
[ratio.comparison]
template struct ratio_equal : integral_constant { }; 1
If R1::num == R2::num and R1::den == R2::den, ratio_equal shall be derived from integral_constant; otherwise it shall be derived from integral_constant. template struct ratio_not_equal : integral_constant { }; template struct ratio_less : integral_constant { };
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If R1::num * R2::den < R2::num * R1::den, ratio_less shall be derived from integral_constant; otherwise it shall be derived from integral_constant. Implementations may use other algorithms to compute this relationship to avoid overflow. If overflow occurs, the program is ill-formed. template struct ratio_less_equal : integral_constant { }; template struct ratio_greater : integral_constant { }; template struct ratio_greater_equal : integral_constant { };
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SI types for ratio
[ratio.si]
For each of the typedefs yocto, zepto, zetta, and yotta, if both of the constants used in its specification are representable by intmax_t, the typedef shall be defined; if either of the constants is not representable by intmax_t, the typedef shall not be defined.
20.11 Time utilities 20.11.1 In general 1
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[time] [time.general]
This subclause describes the chrono library (20.11.2) and various C functions (20.11.8) that provide generally useful time utilities.
20.11.2
Header synopsis
[time.syn]
namespace std { namespace chrono { // 20.11.5, class template duration template class duration; // 20.11.6, class template time_point template class time_point; }
// namespace chrono
// 20.11.4.3 common_type specializations template struct common_type; template struct common_type; namespace chrono { // 20.11.4, customization traits template struct treat_as_floating_point; template struct duration_values; // 20.11.5.5, duration arithmetic template typename common_type::type constexpr operator+(const duration& lhs, const duration& rhs); template typename common_type::type constexpr operator-(const duration& lhs, const duration& rhs); template duration constexpr operator*(const duration& d, const Rep2& s); template duration constexpr operator*(const Rep1& s, const duration& d); template duration constexpr operator/(const duration& d, const Rep2& s); template typename common_type::type constexpr operator/(const duration& lhs, const duration& rhs); template
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duration constexpr operator%(const duration& d, const Rep2& s); template typename common_type::type constexpr operator%(const duration& lhs, const duration& rhs); // 20.11.5.6, duration comparisons template & lhs, Period2>& rhs);
// 20.11.5.7, duration_cast template constexpr ToDuration duration_cast(const duration& d); // convenience typedefs typedef duration minutes; bits , ratio> hours;
// 20.11.6.5, time_point arithmetic template time_point operator+(const time_point& lhs, const duration& rhs); template time_point operator+(const duration& lhs, const time_point& rhs); template time_point operator-(const time_point& lhs, const duration& rhs); template typename common_type::type operator-(const time_point& lhs, const time_point& rhs); // 20.11.6.6 time_point comparisons template bool operator==(const time_point& lhs,
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const time_point& rhs); template bool operator!=(const time_point& lhs, const time_point& rhs); template bool operator< (const time_point& lhs, const time_point& rhs); template bool operator (const time_point& lhs, const time_point& rhs); template bool operator>=(const time_point& lhs, const time_point& rhs); // 20.11.6.7, time_point_cast template time_point time_point_cast(const time_point& t); // 20.11.7, clocks class system_clock; class steady_clock; class high_resolution_clock; } }
// namespace chrono // namespace std
20.11.3 1
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Clock requirements
[time.clock.req]
A clock is a bundle consisting of a duration, a time_point, and a function now() to get the current time_point. The origin of the clock’s time_point is referred to as the clock’s epoch. A clock shall meet the requirements in Table 59. In Table 59 C1 and C2 denote clock types. t1 and t2 are values returned by C1::now() where the call returning t1 happens before (1.10) the call returning t2 and both of these calls occur before C1::time_point::max(). [ Note: this means C1 did not wrap around between t1 and t2. — end note ] Table 59 — Clock requirements Expression C1::rep C1::period C1::duration C1::time_point
§ 20.11.3
Return type An arithmetic type or a class emulating an arithmetic type a specialization of ratio chrono::duration chrono::time_point or chrono::time_point
Operational semantics The representation type of C1::duration. The tick period of the clock in seconds. The duration type of the clock. The time_point type of the clock. C1 and C2 shall refer to the same epoch.
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Expression C1::is_steady
Return type const bool
C1::now()
C1::time_point
Operational semantics true if t1 ::type. — If CF::num == 1 and CF::den == 1, returns ToDuration(static_cast(d.count()))
— otherwise, if CF::num != 1 and CF::den == 1, returns ToDuration(static_cast( static_cast(d.count()) * static_cast(CF::num)))
— otherwise, if CF::num == 1 and CF::den != 1, returns ToDuration(static_cast( static_cast(d.count()) / static_cast(CF::den)))
— otherwise, returns ToDuration(static_cast( static_cast(d.count()) * static_cast(CF::num) / static_cast(CF::den)))
Notes: This function does not use any implicit conversions; all conversions are done with static_cast. It avoids multiplications and divisions when it is known at compile time that one or more arguments is 1. Intermediate computations are carried out in the widest representation and only converted to the destination representation at the final step.
20.11.6
Class template time_point
[time.point]
template class time_point { public: typedef Clock clock; typedef Duration duration; typedef typename duration::rep rep; typedef typename duration::period period; private: duration d_; // exposition only public: // 20.11.6.1, construct: time_point(); // has value epoch
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explicit time_point(const duration& d); // same as time_point() + d template time_point(const time_point& t); // 20.11.6.2, observer: duration time_since_epoch() const; // 20.11.6.3, arithmetic: time_point& operator+=(const duration& d); time_point& operator-=(const duration& d); // 20.11.6.4, special values: static constexpr time_point min(); static constexpr time_point max(); }; 1 2
Clock shall meet the Clock requirements (20.11.7). If Duration is not an instance of duration, the program is ill-formed. 20.11.6.1 time_point constructors
[time.point.cons]
time_point(); 1
Effects: Constructs an object of type time_point, initializing d_ with duration::zero(). Such a time_point object represents the epoch. time_point(const duration& d);
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Effects: Constructs an object of type time_point, initializing d_ with d. Such a time_point object represents the epoch + d. template time_point(const time_point& t);
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Remarks: This constructor shall not participate in overload resolution unless Duration2 is implicitly convertible to duration.
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Effects: Constructs an object of type time_point, initializing d_ with t.time_since_epoch(). 20.11.6.2
time_point observer
[time.point.observer]
duration time_since_epoch() const; 1
Returns: d_. 20.11.6.3
time_point arithmetic
[time.point.arithmetic]
time_point& operator+=(const duration& d); 1
Effects: d_ += d.
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Returns: *this. time_point& operator-=(const duration& d);
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Effects: d_ -= d.
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time_point special values
[time.point.special]
static constexpr time_point min(); 1
Returns: time_point(duration::min()). static constexpr time_point max();
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Returns: time_point(duration::max()). 20.11.6.5
time_point non-member arithmetic
[time.point.nonmember]
template time_point operator+(const time_point& lhs, const duration& rhs); 1
Returns: CT(lhs) += rhs, where CT is the type of the return value. template time_point operator+(const duration& lhs, const time_point& rhs);
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Returns: rhs + lhs. template time_point operator-(const time_point& lhs, const duration& rhs);
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Returns: lhs + (-rhs). template typename common_type::type operator-(const time_point& lhs, const time_point& rhs);
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Returns: lhs.time_since_epoch() - rhs.time_since_epoch(). 20.11.6.6
time_point comparisons
[time.point.comparisons]
template bool operator==(const time_point& lhs, const time_point& rhs); 1
Returns: lhs.time_since_epoch() == rhs.time_since_epoch(). template bool operator!=(const time_point& lhs, const time_point& rhs);
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Returns: !(lhs == rhs). template bool operator=(const time_point& lhs, const time_point& rhs);
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Returns: !(lhs < rhs). 20.11.6.7
time_point_cast
[time.point.cast]
template time_point time_point_cast(const time_point& t); 1
Remarks: This function shall not participate in overload resolution unless ToDuration is an instantiation of duration.
2
Returns: time_point(duration_cast(t.time_since_epoch())).
20.11.7
Clocks
[time.clock]
1
The types defined in this subclause shall satisfy the TrivialClock requirements (20.11.3). 20.11.7.1 Class system_clock [time.clock.system]
1
Objects of class system_clock represent wall clock time from the system-wide realtime clock. class system_clock { public: typedef see below rep; typedef ratio period; typedef chrono::duration duration; typedef chrono::time_point time_point; static const bool is_steady = unspecified ; static time_point now() noexcept; // Map to C API static time_t static time_point }; typedef unspecified
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to_time_t (const time_point& t) noexcept; from_time_t(time_t t) noexcept;
system_clock::rep;
Requires: system_clock::duration::min() < system_clock::duration::zero() shall be true. [ Note: This implies that rep is a signed type. — end note ] static time_t to_time_t(const time_point& t) noexcept;
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Returns: A time_t object that represents the same point in time as t when both values are restricted to the coarser of the precisions of time_t and time_point. It is implementation defined whether values are rounded or truncated to the required precision. § 20.11.7.1
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static time_point from_time_t(time_t t) noexcept; 4
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Returns: A time_point object that represents the same point in time as t when both values are restricted to the coarser of the precisions of time_t and time_point. It is implementation defined whether values are rounded or truncated to the required precision. 20.11.7.2 Class steady_clock [time.clock.steady] Objects of class steady_clock represent clocks for which values of time_point never decrease as physical time advances and for which values of time_point advance at a steady rate relative to real time. That is, the clock may not be adjusted. class steady_clock { public: typedef unspecified rep; typedef ratio period; typedef chrono::duration duration; typedef chrono::time_point time_point; static const bool is_steady = true; static time_point now() noexcept; };
1
20.11.7.3 Class high_resolution_clock [time.clock.hires] Objects of class high_resolution_clock represent clocks with the shortest tick period. high_resolution_clock may be a synonym for system_clock or steady_clock. class high_resolution_clock { public: typedef unspecified rep; typedef ratio period; typedef chrono::duration duration; typedef chrono::time_point time_point; static const bool is_steady = unspecified ; static time_point now() noexcept; };
20.11.8 1
Date and time functions
[date.time]
Table 60 describes the header . Table 60 — Header synopsis Type Macros: NULL Types: size_t Struct: tm Functions: asctime clock ctime gmtime
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Name(s) CLOCKS_PER_SEC clock_t time_t
difftime mktime
localtime time
strftime
The contents are the same as the Standard C library header .230 The functions asctime, ctime, gmtime, and localtime are not required to avoid data races (17.6.5.9). See also: ISO C Clause 7.12, Amendment 1 Clause 4.6.4. 230) strftime supports the C conversion specifiers C, D, e, F, g, G, h, r, R, t, T, u, V, and z, and the modifiers E and O.
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Class template scoped_allocator_adaptor Header synopsis
[allocator.adaptor] [allocator.adaptor.syn]
// scoped allocator adaptor template class scoped_allocator_adaptor; template bool operator==(const scoped_allocator_adaptor& const scoped_allocator_adaptor& template bool operator!=(const scoped_allocator_adaptor& const scoped_allocator_adaptor& 1
a, b) noexcept; a, b) noexcept;
The class template scoped_allocator_adaptor is an allocator template that specifies the memory resource (the outer allocator) to be used by a container (as any other allocator does) and also specifies an inner allocator resource to be passed to the constructor of every element within the container. This adaptor is instantiated with one outer and zero or more inner allocator types. If instantiated with only one allocator type, the inner allocator becomes the scoped_allocator_adaptor itself, thus using the same allocator resource for the container and every element within the container and, if the elements themselves are containers, each of their elements recursively. If instantiated with more than one allocator, the first allocator is the outer allocator for use by the container, the second allocator is passed to the constructors of the container’s elements, and, if the elements themselves are containers, the third allocator is passed to the elements’ elements, and so on. If containers are nested to a depth greater than the number of allocators, the last allocator is used repeatedly, as in the single-allocator case, for any remaining recursions. [ Note: The scoped_allocator_adaptor is derived from the outer allocator type so it can be substituted for the outer allocator type in most expressions. — end note ] namespace std { template class scoped_allocator_adaptor : public OuterAlloc { private: typedef allocator_traits OuterTraits; // exposition only scoped_allocator_adaptor inner; // exposition only public: typedef OuterAlloc outer_allocator_type; typedef see below inner_allocator_type; typedef typedef typedef typedef typedef typedef typedef
typename typename typename typename typename typename typename
OuterTraits::value_type value_type; OuterTraits::size_type size_type; OuterTraits::difference_type difference_type; OuterTraits::pointer pointer; OuterTraits::const_pointer const_pointer; OuterTraits::void_pointer void_pointer; OuterTraits::const_void_pointer const_void_pointer;
typedef see below propagate_on_container_copy_assignment; typedef see below propagate_on_container_move_assignment; typedef see below propagate_on_container_swap; template struct rebind { typedef scoped_allocator_adaptor< OuterTraits::template rebind_alloc, InnerAllocs...> other; };
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scoped_allocator_adaptor(); template scoped_allocator_adaptor(OuterA2&& outerAlloc, const InnerAllocs&... innerAllocs) noexcept; scoped_allocator_adaptor(const scoped_allocator_adaptor& other) noexcept; scoped_allocator_adaptor(scoped_allocator_adaptor&& other) noexcept; template scoped_allocator_adaptor( const scoped_allocator_adaptor& other) noexcept; template scoped_allocator_adaptor( scoped_allocator_adaptor&& other) noexcept; ~scoped_allocator_adaptor(); inner_allocator_type& inner_allocator() noexcept; const inner_allocator_type& inner_allocator() const noexcept; outer_allocator_type& outer_allocator() noexcept; const outer_allocator_type& outer_allocator() const noexcept; pointer allocate(size_type n); pointer allocate(size_type n, const_void_pointer hint); void deallocate(pointer p, size_type n); size_type max_size() const; template void construct(T* p, Args&& args); template void construct(pair* p, piecewise_construct_t, tuple x, tuple y); template void construct(pair* p); template void construct(pair* p, U&& x, V&& y); template void construct(pair* p, const pair& x); template void construct(pair* p, pair&& x); template void destroy(T* p); scoped_allocator_adaptor select_on_container_copy_construction() const; }; template bool operator==(const scoped_allocator_adaptor& const scoped_allocator_adaptor& template bool operator!=(const scoped_allocator_adaptor& const scoped_allocator_adaptor&
a, b) noexcept; a, b) noexcept;
}
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Scoped allocator adaptor member types
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[allocator.adaptor.types]
typedef see below inner_allocator_type; 1
Type: scoped_allocator_adaptor if sizeof...(InnerAllocs) is zero; otherwise, scoped_allocator_adaptor. typedef see below propagate_on_container_copy_assignment;
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Type: true_type if allocator_traits::propagate_on_container_copy_assignment::value is true for any A in the set of OuterAlloc and InnerAllocs...; otherwise, false_type. typedef see below propagate_on_container_move_assignment;
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Type: true_type if allocator_traits::propagate_on_container_move_assignment::value is true for any A in the set of OuterAlloc and InnerAllocs...; otherwise, false_type. typedef see below propagate_on_container_swap;
4
Type: true_type if allocator_traits::propagate_on_container_swap::value is true for any A in the set of OuterAlloc and InnerAllocs...; otherwise, false_type.
20.12.3
Scoped allocator adaptor constructors
[allocator.adaptor.cnstr]
scoped_allocator_adaptor(); 1
Effects: value-initializes the OuterAlloc base class and the inner allocator object. template scoped_allocator_adaptor(OuterA2&& outerAlloc, const InnerAllocs&... innerAllocs) noexcept;
2
Requires: OuterAlloc shall be constructible from OuterA2.
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Effects: initializes the OuterAlloc base class with std::forward(outerAlloc) and inner with innerAllocs... (hence recursively initializing each allocator within the adaptor with the corresponding allocator from the argument list). scoped_allocator_adaptor(const scoped_allocator_adaptor& other) noexcept;
4
Effects: initializes each allocator within the adaptor with the corresponding allocator from other. scoped_allocator_adaptor(scoped_allocator_adaptor&& other) noexcept;
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Effects: move constructs each allocator within the adaptor with the corresponding allocator from other. template scoped_allocator_adaptor(const scoped_allocator_adaptor& other) noexcept;
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Requires: OuterAlloc shall be constructible from OuterA2.
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Effects: initializes each allocator within the adaptor with the corresponding allocator from other. template scoped_allocator_adaptor(scoped_allocator_adaptor&& other) noexcept;
8
Requires: OuterAlloc shall be constructible from OuterA2.
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Effects: initializes each allocator within the adaptor with the corresponding allocator rvalue from other.
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Scoped allocator adaptor members
[allocator.adaptor.members]
In the construct member functions, OUTERMOST(x) is x if x does not have an outer_allocator() member function and OUTERMOST(x.outer_allocator()) otherwise; OUTERMOST_ALLOC_TRAITS(x) is allocator_traits. [ Note: OUTERMOST (x) and OUTERMOST_ALLOC_TRAITS(x) are recursive operations. It is incumbent upon the definition of outer_allocator() to ensure that the recursion terminates. It will terminate for all instantiations of scoped_allocator_adaptor. — end note ] inner_allocator_type& inner_allocator() noexcept; const inner_allocator_type& inner_allocator() const noexcept;
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Returns: *this if sizeof...(InnerAllocs) is zero; otherwise, inner. outer_allocator_type& outer_allocator() noexcept;
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Returns: static_cast(*this). const outer_allocator_type& outer_allocator() const noexcept;
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Returns: static_cast(*this). pointer allocate(size_type n);
5
Returns: allocator_traits::allocate(outer_allocator(), n). pointer allocate(size_type n, const_void_pointer hint);
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Returns: allocator_traits::allocate(outer_allocator(), n, hint). void deallocate(pointer p, size_type n) noexcept;
7
Effects: allocator_traits::deallocate(outer_allocator(), p, n); size_type max_size() const;
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Returns: allocator_traits::max_size(outer_allocator()).
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template void construct(T* p, Args&&... args); 9
Effects: — If uses_allocator::value is false and is_constructible::value is true, calls OUTERMOST_ALLOC_TRAITS(*this)::construct( OUTERMOST (*this), p, std::forward(args)...). — Otherwise, if uses_allocator::value is true and is_constructible::value is true, calls OUTERMOST_ALLOC_TRAITS(*this)::construct(OUTERMOST (*this), p, allocator_arg, inner_allocator(), std::forward(args)...). — Otherwise, if uses_allocator::value is true and is_constructible::value is true, calls OUTERMOST_ALLOC_TRAITS(*this):: construct(OUTERMOST (*this), p, std::forward(args)..., inner_allocator()). — Otherwise, the program is ill-formed. [ Note: An error will result if uses_allocator evaluates to true but the specific constructor does not take an allocator. This definition prevents a silent failure to pass an inner allocator to a contained element. — end note ] template void construct(pair* p,piecewise_construct_t, tuple x, tuple y);
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Requires: all of the types in Args1 and Args2 shall be CopyConstructible (Table 21).
11
Effects: Constructs a tuple object xprime from x by the following rules: — If uses_allocator::value is false and is_constructible::value is true, then xprime is x. — Otherwise, if uses_allocator::value is true and is_constructible::value is true, then xprime is tuple_cat(tuple( allocator_arg, inner_allocator_type()), x). — Otherwise, if uses_allocator::value is true and is_constructible::value is true, then xprime is tuple_cat(x, tuple(inner_allocator_type())). — Otherwise, the program is ill-formed. and constructs a tuple object yprime from y by the following rules: — If uses_allocator::value is false and is_constructible::value is true, then yprime is y. — Otherwise, if uses_allocator::value is true and is_constructible::value is true, then yprime is tuple_cat(tuple( allocator_arg, inner_allocator_type()), y). — Otherwise, if uses_allocator::value is true and is_constructible::value is true, then yprime is tuple_cat(y, tuple(inner_allocator_type())). § 20.12.4
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— Otherwise, the program is ill-formed. then calls OUTERMOST_ALLOC_TRAITS (*this)::construct(OUTERMOST (*this), p, piecewise_construct, xprime, yprime). template void construct(pair* p); 12
Effects: equivalent to this->construct(p, piecewise_construct, tuple(), tuple()). template void construct(pair* p, U&& x, V&& y);
13
Effects: equivalent to this->construct(p, piecewise_construct, forward_as_tuple(std::forward(x)), forward_as_tuple(std::forward(y))). template void construct(pair* p, const pair& x);
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Effects: equivalent to this->construct(p, piecewise_construct, forward_as_tuple(x.first), forward_as_tuple(x.second)). template void construct(pair* p, pair&& x);
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Effects: equivalent to this->construct(p, piecewise_construct, forward_as_tuple(std::forward(x.first)), forward_as_tuple(std::forward(x.second))). template void destroy(T* p);
16
Effects: calls OUTERMOST_ALLOC_TRAITS (*this)::destroy(OUTERMOST (*this), p). scoped_allocator_adaptor select_on_container_copy_construction() const;
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Returns: A new scoped_allocator_adaptor object where each allocator A in the adaptor is initialized from the result of calling allocator_traits::select_on_container_copy_construction() on the corresponding allocator in *this.
20.12.5
Scoped allocator operators
[scoped.adaptor.operators]
template bool operator==(const scoped_allocator_adaptor& a, const scoped_allocator_adaptor& b) noexcept; 1
Returns: a.outer_allocator() == b.outer_allocator() if sizeof...(InnerAllocs) is zero; otherwise, a.outer_allocator() == b.outer_allocator() && a.inner_allocator() == b.inner_allocator(). template bool operator!=(const scoped_allocator_adaptor& a, const scoped_allocator_adaptor& b) noexcept;
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Class type_index
[type.index]
Header synopsis
[type.index.synopsis]
namespace std { class type_index; template struct hash; template struct hash; }
20.13.2
type_index overview
[type.index.overview]
namespace std { class type_index { public: type_index(const type_info& rhs) noexcept; bool operator==(const type_index& rhs) const noexcept; bool operator!=(const type_index& rhs) const noexcept; bool operator< (const type_index& rhs) const noexcept; bool operator (const type_index& rhs) const noexcept; bool operator>= (const type_index& rhs) const noexcept; size_t hash_code() const; const char* name() const; private: const type_info* target; // exposition only // Note that the use of a pointer here, rather than a reference, // means that the default copy/move constructor and assignment // operators will be provided and work as expected. }; } 1
The class type_index provides a simple wrapper for type_info which can be used as an index type in associative containers (23.4) and in unordered associative containers (23.5).
20.13.3
type_index members
[type.index.members]
type_index(const type_info& rhs) noexcept; 1
Effects: constructs a type_index object, the equivalent of target = &rhs. bool operator==(const type_index& rhs) const noexcept;
2
Returns: *target == *rhs.target bool operator!=(const type_index& rhs) const noexcept;
3
Returns: *target != *rhs.target bool operatorbefore(*rhs.target) bool operatorbefore(*target) § 20.13.3
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bool operator>(const type_index& rhs) const noexcept; 6
Returns: rhs.target->before(*target) bool operator>=(const type_index& rhs) const noexcept;
7
Returns: !target->before(*rhs.target) size_t hash_code() const;
8
Returns: target->hash_code() const char* name() const;
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Returns: target->name()
20.13.4
Hash support
[type.index.hash]
template struct hash; 1
Requires: the template specialization shall meet the requirements of class template hash (20.8.12). For an object index of type type_index, hash()(index) shall evaluate to the same result as index.hash_code().
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Strings library
[strings]
General
[strings.general]
This Clause describes components for manipulating sequences of any non-array POD (3.9) type. In this Clause such types are called char-like types , and objects of char-like types are called char-like objects or simply characters. The following subclauses describe a character traits class, a string class, and null-terminated sequence utilities, as summarized in Table 61. Table 61 — Strings library summary
21.2 1
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21.7
Null-terminated sequence utilities
Character traits
Header(s)
[char.traits]
This subclause defines requirements on classes representing character traits, and defines a class template char_traits, along with four specializations, char_traits, char_traits, char_traits, and char_traits, that satisfy those requirements. Most classes specified in Clauses 21.3 and 27 need a set of related types and functions to complete the definition of their semantics. These types and functions are provided as a set of member typedefs and functions in the template parameter ‘traits’ used by each such template. This subclause defines the semantics guaranteed by these members. To specialize those templates to generate a string or iostream class to handle a particular character container type CharT, that and its related character traits class Traits are passed as a pair of parameters to the string or iostream template as formal parameters charT and traits. Traits::char_type shall be the same as CharT. This subclause specifies a struct template, char_traits, and four explicit specializations of it, char_traits, char_traits, char_traits, and char_traits, all of which appear in the header and satisfy the requirements below.
21.2.1 1
21.2 21.3
Subclause Character traits String classes
Character traits requirements
[char.traits.require]
In Table 62, X denotes a Traits class defining types and functions for the character container type CharT; c and d denote values of type CharT; p and q denote values of type const CharT*; s denotes a value of type CharT*; n, i and j denote values of type std::size_t; e and f denote values of type X::int_type; pos denotes a value of type X::pos_type; state denotes a value of type X::state_type; and r denotes an lvalue of type CharT. Operations on Traits shall not throw exceptions.
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Table 62 — Character traits requirements Expression
Return type
X::char_type X::int_type X::off_type X::pos_type X::state_type X::eq(c,d)
bool
X::lt(c,d)
bool
X::compare(p,q,n)
int
X::length(p)
std::size_t
X::find(p,n,c)
const X::char_type*
X::move(s,p,n)
X::char_type*
X::copy(s,p,n)
X::char_type*
X::assign(r,d) X::assign(s,n,c)
(not used) X::char_type*
X::not_eof(e)
int_type
X::to_char_type(e)
X::char_type
§ 21.2.1
charT
Assertion/note pre-/post-condition (described in 21.2.2) (described in 21.2.2) (described in 21.2.2) (described in 21.2.2) (described in 21.2.2) yields: whether c is to be treated as equal to d. yields: whether c is to be treated as less than d. yields: 0 if for each i in [0,n), X::eq(p[i],q[i]) is true; else, a negative value if, for some j in [0,n), X::lt(p[j],q[j]) is true and for each i in [0,j) X::eq(p[i],q[i]) is true; else a positive value. yields: the smallest i such that X::eq(p[i],charT()) is true. yields: the smallest q in [p,p+n) such that X::eq(*q,c) is true, zero otherwise. for each i in [0,n), performs X::assign(s[i],p[i]). Copies correctly even where the ranges [p,p+n) and [s,s+n) overlap. yields: s. pre: p not in [s,s+n). yields: s. for each i in [0,n), performs X::assign(s[i],p[i]). assigns r=d. for each i in [0,n), performs X::assign(s[i],c). yields: s. yields: e if X::eq_int_type(e,X::eof()) is false, otherwise a value f such that X::eq_int_type(f,X::eof()) is false. yields: if for some c, X::eq_int_type(e,X::to_int_type(c)) is true, c; else some unspecified value.
Complexity compile-time compile-time compile-time compile-time compile-time constant constant linear
linear linear
linear
linear
constant linear constant
constant
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Table 62 — Character traits requirements (continued) Expression
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Return type
X::to_int_type(c)
X::int_type
X::eq_int_type(e,f)
bool
X::eof()
X::int_type
Assertion/note pre-/post-condition yields: some value e, constrained by the definitions of to_char_type and eq_int_type. yields: for all c and d, X::eq(c,d) is equal to X::eq_int_type(X::to_int_type(c), X::to_int_type(d)); otherwise, yields true if e and f are both copies of X::eof(); otherwise, yields false if one of e and f is a copy of X::eof() and the other is not; otherwise the value is unspecified. yields: a value e such that X::eq_int_type(e,X::to_int_type(c)) is false for all values c.
Complexity constant
constant
constant
The struct template template struct char_traits;
shall be provided in the header as a basis for explicit specializations.
21.2.2
traits typedefs
[char.traits.typedefs]
typedef CHAR_T char_type; 1
The type char_type is used to refer to the character container type in the implementation of the library classes defined in 21.3 and Clause 27. typedef INT_T int_type;
2
Requires: For a certain character container type char_type, a related container type INT_T shall be a type or class which can represent all of the valid characters converted from the corresponding char_type values, as well as an end-of-file value, eof(). The type int_type represents a character container type which can hold end-of-file to be used as a return type of the iostream class member functions.231 typedef implementation-defined off_type; typedef implementation-defined pos_type;
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Requires: Requirements for off_type and pos_type are described in 27.2.2 and 27.3. typedef STATE_T state_type;
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Requires: state_type shall meet the requirements of CopyAssignable (Table 23), CopyConstructible (Table 21), and DefaultConstructible (Table 19) types. 231) If eof() can be held in char_type then some iostreams operations may give surprising results.
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char_traits specializations
namespace std { template struct template struct template struct template struct } 1
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[char.traits.specializations]
char_traits; char_traits; char_traits; char_traits;
The header shall define four specializations of the template struct char_traits: char_traits< char>, char_traits, char_traits, and char_traits. The requirements for the members of these specializations are given in Clause 21.2.1. 21.2.3.1 struct char_traits [char.traits.specializations.char] namespace std { template struct char_traits { typedef char char_type; typedef int int_type; typedef streamoff off_type; typedef streampos pos_type; typedef mbstate_t state_type; static void assign(char_type& c1, const char_type& c2) noexcept; static constexpr bool eq(char_type c1, char_type c2) noexcept; static constexpr bool lt(char_type c1, char_type c2) noexcept; static int compare(const char_type* s1, const char_type* s2, size_t n); static size_t length(const char_type* s); static const char_type* find(const char_type* s, size_t n, const char_type& a); static char_type* move(char_type* s1, const char_type* s2, size_t n); static char_type* copy(char_type* s1, const char_type* s2, size_t n); static char_type* assign(char_type* s, size_t n, char_type a); static static static static static
constexpr constexpr constexpr constexpr constexpr
int_type not_eof(int_type c) noexcept; char_type to_char_type(int_type c) noexcept; int_type to_int_type(char_type c) noexcept; bool eq_int_type(int_type c1, int_type c2) noexcept; int_type eof() noexcept;
}; } 1
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The defined types for int_type, pos_type, off_type, and state_type shall be int, streampos, streamoff, and mbstate_t respectively. The type streampos shall be an implementation-defined type that satisfies the requirements for pos_type in 27.2.2 and 27.3. The type streamoff shall be an implementation-defined type that satisfies the requirements for off_type in 27.2.2 and 27.3. The type mbstate_t is defined in and can represent any of the conversion states that can occur in an implementation-defined set of supported multibyte character encoding rules. The two-argument member assign shall be defined identically to the built-in operator =. The two-argument members eq and lt shall be defined identically to the built-in operators == and < for type unsigned char. The member eof() shall return EOF. 21.2.3.2 struct char_traits [char.traits.specializations.char16_t]
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namespace std { template struct char_traits { typedef char16_t char_type; typedef uint_least16_t int_type; typedef streamoff off_type; typedef u16streampos pos_type; typedef mbstate_t state_type; static void assign(char_type& c1, const char_type& c2) noexcept; static constexpr bool eq(char_type c1, char_type c2) noexcept; static constexpr bool lt(char_type c1, char_type c2) noexcept; static int compare(const char_type* s1, const char_type* s2, size_t n); static size_t length(const char_type* s); static const char_type* find(const char_type* s, size_t n, const char_type& a); static char_type* move(char_type* s1, const char_type* s2, size_t n); static char_type* copy(char_type* s1, const char_type* s2, size_t n); static char_type* assign(char_type* s, size_t n, char_type a); static static static static static
constexpr constexpr constexpr constexpr constexpr
int_type not_eof(int_type c) noexcept; char_type to_char_type(int_type c) noexcept; int_type to_int_type(char_type c) noexcept; bool eq_int_type(int_type c1, int_type c2) noexcept; int_type eof() noexcept;
}; } 1
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The type u16streampos shall be an implementation-defined type that satisfies the requirements for pos_type in 27.2.2 and 27.3. The two-argument members assign, eq, and lt shall be defined identically to the built-in operators =, ==, and < respectively. The member eof() shall return an implementation-defined constant that cannot appear as a valid UTF-16 code unit. 21.2.3.3 struct char_traits [char.traits.specializations.char32_t] namespace std { template struct char_traits { typedef char32_t char_type; typedef uint_least32_t int_type; typedef streamoff off_type; typedef u32streampos pos_type; typedef mbstate_t state_type; static void assign(char_type& c1, const char_type& c2) noexcept; static constexpr bool eq(char_type c1, char_type c2) noexcept; static constexpr bool lt(char_type c1, char_type c2) noexcept; static int compare(const char_type* s1, const char_type* s2, size_t n); static size_t length(const char_type* s); static const char_type* find(const char_type* s, size_t n, const char_type& a); static char_type* move(char_type* s1, const char_type* s2, size_t n); static char_type* copy(char_type* s1, const char_type* s2, size_t n); static char_type* assign(char_type* s, size_t n, char_type a);
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int_type not_eof(int_type c) noexcept; char_type to_char_type(int_type c) noexcept; int_type to_int_type(char_type c) noexcept; bool eq_int_type(int_type c1, int_type c2) noexcept; int_type eof() noexcept;
}; } 1
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The type u32streampos shall be an implementation-defined type that satisfies the requirements for pos_type in 27.2.2 and 27.3. The two-argument members assign, eq, and lt shall be defined identically to the built-in operators =, ==, and < respectively. The member eof() shall return an implementation-defined constant that cannot appear as a Unicode code point. 21.2.3.4 struct char_traits [char.traits.specializations.wchar.t] namespace std { template struct char_traits { typedef wchar_t char_type; typedef wint_t int_type; typedef streamoff off_type; typedef wstreampos pos_type; typedef mbstate_t state_type; static void assign(char_type& c1, const char_type& c2) noexcept; static constexpr bool eq(char_type c1, char_type c2) noexcept; static constexpr bool lt(char_type c1, char_type c2) noexcept; static int compare(const char_type* s1, const char_type* s2, size_t n); static size_t length(const char_type* s); static const char_type* find(const char_type* s, size_t n, const char_type& a); static char_type* move(char_type* s1, const char_type* s2, size_t n); static char_type* copy(char_type* s1, const char_type* s2, size_t n); static char_type* assign(char_type* s, size_t n, char_type a); static static static static static
constexpr constexpr constexpr constexpr constexpr
int_type not_eof(int_type c) noexcept; char_type to_char_type(int_type c) noexcept; int_type to_int_type(char_type c) noexcept; bool eq_int_type(int_type c1, int_type c2) noexcept; int_type eof() noexcept;
}; } 1
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The defined types for int_type, pos_type, and state_type shall be wint_t, wstreampos, and mbstate_t respectively. The type wstreampos shall be an implementation-defined type that satisfies the requirements for pos_type in 27.2.2 and 27.3. The type mbstate_t is defined in and can represent any of the conversion states that can occur in an implementation-defined set of supported multibyte character encoding rules. The two-argument members assign, eq, and lt shall be defined identically to the built-in operators =, ==, and < respectively.
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String classes
[string.classes]
The header defines the basic_string class template for manipulating varying-length sequences of char-like objects and four typedefs, string, u16string, u32string, and wstring, that name the specializations basic_string, basic_string, basic_string, and basic_string< wchar_t>, respectively. Header synopsis #include namespace std { // 21.2, character traits: template struct char_traits; template struct char_traits; template struct char_traits; template struct char_traits; template struct char_traits; // 21.4, basic_string: template class basic_string; template basic_string operator+(const basic_string& lhs, const basic_string& rhs); template basic_string operator+(basic_string&& lhs, const basic_string& rhs); template basic_string operator+(const basic_string& lhs, basic_string&& rhs); template basic_string operator+(basic_string&& lhs, basic_string&& rhs); template basic_string operator+(const charT* lhs, const basic_string& rhs); template basic_string operator+(const charT* lhs, basic_string&& rhs); template basic_string operator+(charT lhs, const basic_string& rhs); template basic_string operator+(charT lhs, basic_string&& rhs); template
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basic_string operator+(const basic_string& lhs, const charT* rhs); template basic_string operator+(basic_string&& lhs, const charT* rhs); template basic_string operator+(const basic_string& lhs, charT rhs); template basic_string operator+(basic_string&& lhs, charT rhs); template bool operator==(const basic_string& const basic_string& template bool operator==(const charT* lhs, const basic_string& template bool operator==(const basic_string& const charT* rhs); template bool operator!=(const basic_string& const basic_string& template bool operator!=(const charT* lhs, const basic_string& template bool operator!=(const basic_string& const charT* rhs); template bool operator< (const basic_string& const basic_string& template bool operator< (const basic_string& const charT* rhs); template bool operator< (const charT* lhs, const basic_string& template bool operator> (const basic_string& const basic_string& template bool operator> (const basic_string& const charT* rhs); template bool operator> (const charT* lhs, const basic_string&
lhs, rhs) noexcept;
rhs); lhs,
lhs, rhs) noexcept;
rhs); lhs,
lhs, rhs) noexcept; lhs,
rhs); lhs, rhs) noexcept; lhs,
rhs);
template bool operator=(const charT* lhs, const basic_string&
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lhs,
rhs); lhs, rhs) noexcept; lhs,
rhs);
// 21.4.8.8, swap: template void swap(basic_string& lhs, basic_string& rhs); // 21.4.8.9, inserters and extractors: template basic_istream& operator>>(basic_istream& is, basic_string& str); template basic_ostream& operator max_size().
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Effects: Replaces the string controlled by *this with a string of length n whose elements are a copy of those pointed to by s.
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Returns: *this. basic_string& assign(const charT* s);
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Requires: s points to an array of at least traits::length(s) + 1 elements of charT.
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Effects: Calls assign(s, traits::length(s)).
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Returns: *this. basic_string& assign(initializer_list il);
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*this. basic_string& assign(size_type n, charT c);
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basic_string::insert
[string::insert]
basic_string& insert(size_type pos1, const basic_string& str); 1
Requires: pos size().
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Returns: *this. basic_string& insert(size_type pos1, const basic_string& str, size_type pos2, size_type n);
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Requires: pos1 str.size().
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Effects: Determines the effective length rlen of the string to insert as the smaller of n and str.size() - pos2 and calls insert(pos1, str.data() + pos2, rlen).
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Requires: s points to an array of at least n elements of charT and pos size() or length_error if size() + n > max_size().
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Effects: Replaces the string controlled by *this with a string of length size() + n whose first pos elements are a copy of the initial elements of the original string controlled by *this and whose next n elements are a copy of the elements in s and whose remaining elements are a copy of the remaining elements of the original string controlled by *this.
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Returns: *this. basic_string& insert(size_type pos, const charT* s);
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Requires: pos = max_size() - n2 throws length_error. Otherwise, the function replaces the string controlled by *this with a string of length size() - xlen + n2 whose first pos1 elements are a copy of the initial elements of the original string controlled by *this, whose next n2 elements are a copy of the initial n2 elements of s, and whose remaining elements are a copy of the elements of the original string controlled by *this beginning at position pos + xlen.
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Returns: *this. basic_string& replace(size_type pos, size_type n, const charT* s);
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Requires: pos 0. 21.4.8.6
operator= 0. 21.4.8.8
swap
[string.special]
template void swap(basic_string& lhs, basic_string& rhs); 1
Effects: Equivalent to lhs.swap(rhs);
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Inserters and extractors
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[string.io]
template basic_istream& operator>>(basic_istream& is, basic_string& str); 1
Effects: Behaves as a formatted input function (27.7.2.2.1). After constructing a sentry object, if the sentry converts to true, calls str.erase() and then extracts characters from is and appends them to str as if by calling str.append(1,c). If is.width() is greater than zero, the maximum number n of characters appended is is.width(); otherwise n is str.max_size(). Characters are extracted and appended until any of the following occurs: — n characters are stored; — end-of-file occurs on the input sequence; — isspace(c,is.getloc()) is true for the next available input character c.
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After the last character (if any) is extracted, is.width(0) is called and the sentry object k is destroyed.
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If the function extracts no characters, it calls is.setstate(ios::failbit), which may throw ios_base::failure (27.5.5.4).
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Returns: is template basic_ostream& operator class money_get; class OutputIterator = ostreambuf_iterator > > class money_put; bool Intl = false> class moneypunct; bool Intl = false> class moneypunct_byname;
// 22.4.7, message retrieval: class messages_base; template class messages; template class messages_byname; } 1
The header defines classes and declares functions that encapsulate and manipulate the information peculiar to a locale.235
22.3 22.3.1
Locales Class locale
[locales] [locale]
namespace std { class locale { public: // types: class facet; class id; typedef int category; 235) In this subclause, the type name struct tm is an incomplete type that is defined in .
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static const category // values assigned here are for exposition only none = 0, collate = 0x010, ctype = 0x020, monetary = 0x040, numeric = 0x080, time = 0x100, messages = 0x200, all = collate | ctype | monetary | numeric | time | messages; // construct/copy/destroy: locale() noexcept; locale(const locale& other) noexcept; explicit locale(const char* std_name); explicit locale(const string& std_name); locale(const locale& other, const char* std_name, category); locale(const locale& other, const string& std_name, category); template locale(const locale& other, Facet* f); locale(const locale& other, const locale& one, category); ~locale(); // not virtual const locale& operator=(const locale& other) noexcept; template locale combine(const locale& other) const; // locale operations: basic_string
name() const;
bool operator==(const locale& other) const; bool operator!=(const locale& other) const; template bool operator()(const basic_string& s1, const basic_string& s2) const; // global locale objects: static locale global(const locale&); static const locale& classic(); }; } 1
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Class locale implements a type-safe polymorphic set of facets, indexed by facet type. In other words, a facet has a dual role: in one sense, it’s just a class interface; at the same time, it’s an index into a locale’s set of facets. Access to the facets of a locale is via two function templates, use_facet and has_facet. [ Example: An iostream operator&) is provided so that a locale may be used as a predicate argument to the standard collections, to collate strings. — Convenient global interfaces are provided for traditional ctype functions such as isdigit() and isspace(), so that given a locale object loc a C++ program can call isspace(c,loc). (This eases upgrading existing extractors (27.7.2.2).) — end note ]
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Once a facet reference is obtained from a locale object by calling use_facet, that reference remains usable, and the results from member functions of it may be cached and re-used, as long as some locale object refers to that facet. In successive calls to a locale facet member function on a facet object installed in the same locale, the returned result shall be identical. A locale constructed from a name string (such as "POSIX"), or from parts of two named locales, has a name; all others do not. Named locales may be compared for equality; an unnamed locale is equal only to (copies of) itself. For an unnamed locale, locale::name() returns the string "*". Whether there is one global locale object for the entire program or one global locale object per thread is implementation-defined. Implementations should provide one global locale object per thread. If there is a single global locale object for the entire program, implementations are not required to avoid data races on it (17.6.5.9). 22.3.1.1 22.3.1.1.1
locale types Type locale::category
[locale.types] [locale.category]
typedef int category; 1
Valid category values include the locale member bitmask elements collate, ctype, monetary, numeric, time, and messages, each of which represents a single locale category. In addition, locale member bitmask constant none is defined as zero and represents no category. And locale member bitmask constant all is defined such that the expression (collate | ctype | monetary | numeric | time | messages | all) == all
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is true, and represents the union of all categories. Further, the expression (X | Y), where X and Y each represent a single category, represents the union of the two categories. locale member functions expecting a category argument require one of the category values defined above, or the union of two or more such values. Such a category value identifies a set of locale categories. Each locale category, in turn, identifies a set of locale facets, including at least those shown in Table 81. For any locale loc either constructed, or returned by locale::classic(), and any facet Facet shown in Table 81, has_facet(loc) is true. Each locale member function which takes a locale::category argument operates on the corresponding set of facets. An implementation is required to provide those specializations for facet templates identified as members of a category, and for those shown in Table 82. The provided implementation of members of facets num_get and num_put calls use_facet (l) only for facet F of types numpunct and ctype, and for locale l the value obtained by calling member getloc() on the ios_base& argument to these functions. § 22.3.1.1.1
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Table 81 — Locale category facets Category collate ctype
monetary
numeric
time messages
Includes facets collate, collate ctype, ctype codecvt codecvt codecvt codecvt moneypunct, moneypunct moneypunct, moneypunct money_get, money_get money_put, money_put numpunct, numpunct num_get, num_get num_put, num_put time_get, time_get time_put, time_put messages, messages
Table 82 — Required specializations Category collate ctype
monetary
numeric time
messages
§ 22.3.1.1.1
Includes facets collate_byname, collate_byname ctype_byname, ctype_byname codecvt_byname codecvt_byname codecvt_byname codecvt_byname moneypunct_byname moneypunct_byname money_get money_put numpunct_byname, numpunct_byname num_get, num_put time_get time_get_byname time_get time_get_byname time_put time_put_byname time_put time_put_byname messages_byname, messages_byname
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In declarations of facets, a template formal parameter with name InputIterator or OutputIterator indicates the set of all possible specializations on parameters that satisfy the requirements of an Input Iterator or an Output Iterator, respectively (24.2). A template formal parameter with name C represents the set of types containing char, wchar_t, and any other implementation-defined character types that satisfy the requirements for a character on which any of the iostream components can be instantiated. A template formal parameter with name International represents the set of all possible specializations on a bool parameter. 22.3.1.1.2 Class locale::facet [locale.facet] namespace std { class locale::facet { protected: explicit facet(size_t refs = 0); virtual ~facet(); facet(const facet&) = delete; void operator=(const facet&) = delete; }; }
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Template parameters in this Clause which are required to be facets are those named Facet in declarations. A program that passes a type that is not a facet, or a type that refers to a volatile-qualified facet, as an (explicit or deduced) template parameter to a locale function expecting a facet, is ill-formed. A const-qualified facet is a valid template argument to any locale function that expects a Facet template parameter. The refs argument to the constructor is used for lifetime management. — For refs == 0, the implementation performs delete static_cast(f) (where f is a pointer to the facet) when the last locale object containing the facet is destroyed; for refs == 1, the implementation never destroys the facet. Constructors of all facets defined in this Clause take such an argument and pass it along to their facet base class constructor. All one-argument constructors defined in this Clause are explicit, preventing their participation in automatic conversions. For some standard facets a standard “. . ._byname” class, derived from it, implements the virtual function semantics equivalent to that facet of the locale constructed by locale(const char*) with the same name. Each such facet provides a constructor that takes a const char* argument, which names the locale, and a refs argument, which is passed to the base class constructor. Each such facet also provides a constructor that takes a string argument str and a refs argument, which has the same effect as calling the first constructor with the two arguments str.c_str() and refs. If there is no “. . ._byname” version of a facet, the base class implements named locale semantics itself by reference to other facets. 22.3.1.1.3
Class locale::id
[locale.id]
namespace std { class locale::id { public: id(); void operator=(const id&) = delete; id(const id&) = delete; }; } 1
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The class locale::id provides identification of a locale facet interface, used as an index for lookup and to encapsulate initialization. [ Note: Because facets are used by iostreams, potentially while static constructors are running, their initialization cannot depend on programmed static initialization. One initialization strategy is for locale to
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initialize each facet’s id member the first time an instance of the facet is installed into a locale. This depends only on static storage being zero before constructors run (3.6.2). — end note ] 22.3.1.2 locale constructors and destructor [locale.cons] locale() noexcept; 1
Default constructor: a snapshot of the current global locale.
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Effects: Constructs a copy of the argument last passed to locale::global(locale&), if it has been called; else, the resulting facets have virtual function semantics identical to those of locale::classic(). [ Note: This constructor is commonly used as the default value for arguments of functions that take a const locale& argument. — end note ] locale(const locale& other) noexcept;
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Returns: *this explicit locale(const char* std_name);
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Throws: runtime_error if the argument is not valid, or is null.
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locale(const locale& other, const locale& one, category cats); 16
Effects: Constructs a locale incorporating all facets from the first argument except those that implement cats, which are instead incorporated from the second argument.
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locale members
[locale.members]
template locale combine(const locale& other) const; 1
Effects: Constructs a locale incorporating all facets from *this except for that one facet of other that is identified by Facet.
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Returns: The newly created locale.
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Remarks: The resulting locale has no name. basic_string name() const;
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Returns: The name of *this, if it has one; otherwise, the string "*". If *this has a name, then locale(name().c_str()) is equivalent to *this. Details of the contents of the resulting string are otherwise implementation-defined. 22.3.1.4
locale operators
[locale.operators]
bool operator==(const locale& other) const; 1
Returns: true if both arguments are the same locale, or one is a copy of the other, or each has a name and the names are identical; false otherwise. bool operator!=(const locale& other) const;
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Returns: The result of the expression: !(*this == other). template bool operator()(const basic_string& s1, const basic_string& s2) const;
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Remarks: This member operator template (and therefore locale itself) satisfies requirements for a comparator predicate template argument (Clause 25) applied to strings.
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Returns: The result of the following expression: use_facet< collate >(*this).compare (s1.data(), s1.data()+s1.size(), s2.data(), s2.data()+s2.size()) < 0;
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[ Example: A vector of strings v can be collated according to collation rules in locale loc simply by (25.4.1, 23.3.6): std::sort(v.begin(), v.end(), loc);
— end example ] 22.3.1.5
locale static members
[locale.statics]
static locale global(const locale& loc); 1
Sets the global locale to its argument.
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otherwise, the effect on the C locale, if any, is implementation-defined. No library function other than locale::global() shall affect the value returned by locale(). [ Note: See 22.6 for data race considerations when setlocale is invoked. — end note ] 3
Returns: The previous value of locale(). static const locale& classic();
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The "C" locale.
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22.3.2
locale globals
[locale.global.templates]
template const Facet& use_facet(const locale& loc); 1
Requires: Facet is a facet class whose definition contains the public static member id as defined in 22.3.1.1.2.
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22.3.3 22.3.3.1 template template template template template template template
§ 22.3.3.1
Convenience interfaces
[locale.convenience]
Character classification
bool bool bool bool bool bool bool
isspace isprint iscntrl isupper islower isalpha isdigit
[classification] (charT (charT (charT (charT (charT (charT (charT
c, c, c, c, c, c, c,
const const const const const const const
locale& locale& locale& locale& locale& locale& locale&
loc); loc); loc); loc); loc); loc); loc);
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template template template template template 1
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bool bool bool bool bool
ispunct (charT isxdigit(charT isalnum (charT isgraph (charT isblank (charT
c, c, c, c, c,
const const const const const
locale& locale& locale& locale& locale&
loc); loc); loc); loc); loc);
Each of these functions isF returns the result of the expression: use_facet< ctype >(loc).is(ctype_base::F , c)
where F is the ctype_base::mask value corresponding to that function (22.4.1).237 22.3.3.2 Conversions 22.3.3.2.1
Character conversions
[conversions]
[conversions.character]
template charT toupper(charT c, const locale& loc); 1
Returns: use_facet(loc).toupper(c). template charT tolower(charT c, const locale& loc);
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Returns: use_facet(loc).tolower(c). 22.3.3.2.2
1
string conversions
[conversions.string]
Class template wstring_convert performs conversions between a wide string and a byte string. It lets you specify a code conversion facet (like class template codecvt) to perform the conversions, without affecting any streams or locales. [ Example: Say, for example, you have a code conversion facet called codecvt_utf8 that you want to use to output to cout a UTF-8 multibyte sequence corresponding to a wide string, but you don’t want to alter the locale for cout. You can write something like: wstring_convert myconv; std::string mbstring = myconv.to_bytes(L"Hello\n"); std::cout , as members put() and get(), respectively. Each such member function takes an ios_base& argument whose members flags(), precision(), and width(), specify the format of the corresponding datum (27.5.3). Those functions which need to use other facets call its member getloc() to retrieve the locale imbued there. Formatting facets use the character argument fill to fill out the specified width where necessary. The put() members make no provision for error reporting. (Any failures of the OutputIterator argument must be extracted from the returned iterator.) The get() members take an ios_base::iostate& argument whose value they ignore, but set to ios_base::failbit in case of a parse error. Within this clause it is unspecified whether one virtual function calls another virtual function.
22.4.1
The ctype category
[category.ctype]
namespace std { class ctype_base { public: typedef T mask; // numeric values are for exposition only. static const mask space = 1 =(const set& x, const set& y); template bool operator (const multiset& const multiset& template bool operator>=(const multiset& const multiset& template bool operator (const map& x, const map& y); template bool operator>=(const map& x, const map& y); template bool operator (const multimap& x, const multimap& y); template bool operator>=(const multimap& x, const multimap& y); template bool operator (const set& x, const set& y); template bool operator>=(const set& x, const set& y); template bool operator (const multiset& const multiset& template bool operator>=(const multiset& const multiset& template bool operator (const queue& template bool operator>=(const queue& template bool operator (const queue& template bool operator>=(const queue& template bool operator=(const queue& x, const queue& y);
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queue specialized algorithms
[queue.special]
template void swap(queue& x, queue& y) noexcept(noexcept(x.swap(y))); 1
Effects: x.swap(y).
23.6.4 1
Class template priority_queue
[priority.queue]
Any sequence container with random access iterator and supporting operations front(), push_back() and pop_back() can be used to instantiate priority_queue. In particular, vector (23.3.6) and deque (23.3.3) can be used. Instantiating priority_queue also involves supplying a function or function object for making priority comparisons; the library assumes that the function or function object defines a strict weak ordering (25.4). namespace std { template class priority_queue { public: typedef typename Container::value_type value_type; typedef typename Container::reference reference; typedef typename Container::const_reference const_reference; typedef typename Container::size_type size_type; typedef Container container_type; protected: Container c; Compare comp; public: priority_queue(const Compare& x, const Container&); explicit priority_queue(const Compare& x = Compare(), Container&& = Container()); template priority_queue(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, const Compare& x, const Container&); template priority_queue(InputIterator first, InputIterator last,
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const Compare& x = Compare(), Container&& = Container()); template explicit priority_queue(const Alloc&); template priority_queue(const Compare&, const Alloc&); template priority_queue(const Compare&, const Container&, const Alloc&); template priority_queue(const Compare&, Container&&, const Alloc&); template priority_queue(const priority_queue&, const Alloc&); template priority_queue(priority_queue&&, const Alloc&); bool empty() const { return c.empty(); } size_type size() const { return c.size(); } const_reference top() const { return c.front(); } void push(const value_type& x); void push(value_type&& x); template void emplace(Args&&... args); void pop(); void swap(priority_queue& q) noexcept( noexcept(swap(c, q.c)) && noexcept(swap(comp, q.comp))) { using std::swap; swap(c, q.c); swap(comp, q.comp); } }; // no equality is provided template void swap(priority_queue& x, priority_queue& y) noexcept(noexcept(x.swap(y))); template struct uses_allocator : uses_allocator::type { }; }
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priority_queue constructors
[priqueue.cons]
priority_queue(const Compare& x, const Container& y); explicit priority_queue(const Compare& x = Compare(), Container&& y = Container()); 1
Requires: x shall define a strict weak ordering (25.4).
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Effects: Initializes comp with x and c with y (copy constructing or move constructing as appropriate); calls make_heap(c.begin(), c.end(), comp). template priority_queue(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, const Compare& x, const Container& y); template priority_queue(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, const Compare& x = Compare(), Container&& y = Container());
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Requires: x shall define a strict weak ordering (25.4).
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Effects: Initializes comp with x and c with y (copy constructing or move constructing as appropriate); calls c.insert(c.end(), first, last); and finally calls make_heap(c.begin(), c.end(), comp). § 23.6.4.1
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priority_queue constructors with allocators
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[priqueue.cons.alloc]
If uses_allocator::value is false the constructors in this subclause shall not participate in overload resolution. template explicit priority_queue(const Alloc& a);
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Effects: Initializes c with a and value-initializes comp. template priority_queue(const Compare& compare, const Alloc& a);
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Effects: Initializes c with a and initializes comp with compare. template priority_queue(const Compare& compare, const Container& cont, const Alloc& a);
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Effects: Initializes c with cont as the first argument and a as the second argument, and initializes comp with compare. template priority_queue(const Compare& compare, Container&& cont, const Alloc& a);
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Effects: Initializes c with std::move(cont) as the first argument and a as the second argument, and initializes comp with compare. template priority_queue(const priority_queue& q, const Alloc& a);
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Effects: Initializes c with q.c as the first argument and a as the second argument, and initializes comp with q.comp. template priority_queue(priority_queue&& q, const Alloc& a);
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Effects: Initializes c with std::move(q.c) as the first argument and a as the second argument, and initializes comp with std::move(q.comp). 23.6.4.3
priority_queue members
[priqueue.members]
void push(const value_type& x); 1
Effects: c.push_back(x); push_heap(c.begin(), c.end(), comp);
void push(value_type&& x); 2
Effects: c.push_back(std::move(x)); push_heap(c.begin(), c.end(), comp);
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template void emplace(Args&&... args) 3
Effects: c.emplace_back(std::forward(args)...); push_heap(c.begin(), c.end(), comp);
void pop(); 4
Effects: pop_heap(c.begin(), c.end(), comp); c.pop_back();
23.6.4.4
priority_queue specialized algorithms
[priqueue.special]
template void swap(priority_queue& x, priority_queue& y) noexcept(noexcept(x.swap(y))); 1
Effects: x.swap(y).
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Class template stack
[stack]
Any sequence container supporting operations back(), push_back() and pop_back() can be used to instantiate stack. In particular, vector (23.3.6), list (23.3.5) and deque (23.3.3) can be used. 23.6.5.1 Header synopsis [stack.syn] #include namespace std { template class stack; template bool operator==(const stack& x,const stack& y); template bool operator< (const stack& x,const stack& y); template bool operator!=(const stack& x,const stack& y); template bool operator> (const stack& x,const stack& y); template bool operator>=(const stack& x,const stack& y); template bool operator& y);
template struct uses_allocator : uses_allocator::type { }; }
23.6.5.3
stack constructors
[stack.cons]
explicit stack(const Container& cont); 1
Effects: Initializes c with cont. explicit stack(Container&& const = Container());
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Effects: Initializes c with std::move(cont). 23.6.5.4
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stack constructors with allocators
[stack.cons.alloc]
If uses_allocator::value is false the constructors in this subclause shall not participate in overload resolution. template explicit stack(const Alloc& a);
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Effects: Initializes c with a. template stack(const container_type& cont, const Alloc& a);
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Effects: Initializes c with cont as the first argument and a as the second argument. template stack(container_type&& cont, const Alloc& a);
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Effects: Initializes c with std::move(cont) as the first argument and a as the second argument. template stack(const stack& s, const Alloc& a);
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Effects: Initializes c with s.c as the first argument and a as the second argument. template stack(stack&& s, const Alloc& a);
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Effects: Initializes c with std::move(s.c) as the first argument and a as the second argument. 23.6.5.5
stack operators
[stack.ops]
template bool operator==(const stack& x, const stack& y); 1
Returns: x.c == y.c. template bool operator!=(const stack& x, const stack& y);
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Returns: x.c != y.c. template bool operator< (const stack& x, const stack& y);
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Returns: x.c < y.c.
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template bool operator y.c. template bool operator>=(const stack& x, const stack& y);
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Returns: x.c >= y.c. 23.6.5.6
stack specialized algorithms
[stack.special]
template void swap(stack& x, stack& y) noexcept(noexcept(x.swap(y))); 1
Effects: x.swap(y).
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Iterators library
[iterators]
General
[iterators.general]
This Clause describes components that C++ programs may use to perform iterations over containers (Clause 23), streams (27.7), and stream buffers (27.6). The following subclauses describe iterator requirements, and components for iterator primitives, predefined iterators, and stream iterators, as summarized in Table 104. Table 104 — Iterators library summary
24.2 24.4 24.5 24.6
24.2 24.2.1 1
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Subclause Requirements Iterator primitives Predefined iterators Stream iterators
Header(s)
Iterator requirements
[iterator.requirements]
In general
[iterator.requirements.general]
Iterators are a generalization of pointers that allow a C++ program to work with different data structures (containers) in a uniform manner. To be able to construct template algorithms that work correctly and efficiently on different types of data structures, the library formalizes not just the interfaces but also the semantics and complexity assumptions of iterators. All input iterators i support the expression *i, resulting in a value of some object type T, called the value type of the iterator. All output iterators support the expression *i = o where o is a value of some type that is in the set of types that are writable to the particular iterator type of i. All iterators i for which the expression (*i).m is well-defined, support the expression i->m with the same semantics as (*i).m. For every iterator type X for which equality is defined, there is a corresponding signed integer type called the difference type of the iterator. Since iterators are an abstraction of pointers, their semantics is a generalization of most of the semantics of pointers in C++. This ensures that every function template that takes iterators works as well with regular pointers. This International Standard defines five categories of iterators, according to the operations defined on them: input iterators, output iterators, forward iterators, bidirectional iterators and random access iterators, as shown in Table 105. Table 105 — Relations among iterator categories Random Access
3
4
→ Bidirectional
→ Forward
→ Input → Output
Forward iterators satisfy all the requirements of input iterators and can be used whenever an input iterator is specified; Bidirectional iterators also satisfy all the requirements of forward iterators and can be used whenever a forward iterator is specified; Random access iterators also satisfy all the requirements of bidirectional iterators and can be used whenever a bidirectional iterator is specified. Iterators that further satisfy the requirements of output iterators are called mutable iterators. Nonmutable iterators are referred to as constant iterators. § 24.2.1
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Just as a regular pointer to an array guarantees that there is a pointer value pointing past the last element of the array, so for any iterator type there is an iterator value that points past the last element of a corresponding sequence. These values are called past-the-end values. Values of an iterator i for which the expression *i is defined are called dereferenceable. The library never assumes that past-the-end values are dereferenceable. Iterators can also have singular values that are not associated with any sequence. [ Example: After the declaration of an uninitialized pointer x (as with int* x;), x must always be assumed to have a singular value of a pointer. — end example ] Results of most expressions are undefined for singular values; the only exceptions are destroying an iterator that holds a singular value, the assignment of a non-singular value to an iterator that holds a singular value, and, for iterators that satisfy the DefaultConstructible requirements, using a value-initialized iterator as the source of a copy or move operation. [ Note: This guarantee is not offered for default initialization, although the distinction only matters for types with trivial default constructors such as pointers or aggregates holding pointers. — end note ] In these cases the singular value is overwritten the same way as any other value. Dereferenceable values are always non-singular. An iterator j is called reachable from an iterator i if and only if there is a finite sequence of applications of the expression ++i that makes i == j. If j is reachable from i, they refer to elements of the same sequence. Most of the library’s algorithmic templates that operate on data structures have interfaces that use ranges. A range is a pair of iterators that designate the beginning and end of the computation. A range [i,i) is an empty range; in general, a range [i,j) refers to the elements in the data structure starting with the element pointed to by i and up to but not including the element pointed to by j. Range [i,j) is valid if and only if j is reachable from i. The result of the application of functions in the library to invalid ranges is undefined. All the categories of iterators require only those functions that are realizable for a given category in constant time (amortized). Therefore, requirement tables for the iterators do not have a complexity column. Destruction of an iterator may invalidate pointers and references previously obtained from that iterator. An invalid iterator is an iterator that may be singular.266 In the following sections, a and b denote values of type X or const X, difference_type and reference refer to the types iterator_traits::difference_type and iterator_traits::reference, respectively, n denotes a value of difference_type, u, tmp, and m denote identifiers, r denotes a value of X&, t denotes a value of value type T, o denotes a value of some type that is writable to the output iterator. [ Note: For an iterator type X there must be an instantiation of iterator_traits (24.4.1). — end note ]
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Iterator
[iterator.iterators]
The Iterator requirements form the basis of the iterator concept taxonomy; every iterator satisfies the Iterator requirements. This set of requirements specifies operations for dereferencing and incrementing an iterator. Most algorithms will require additional operations to read (24.2.3) or write (24.2.4) values, or to provide a richer set of iterator movements (24.2.5, 24.2.6, 24.2.7).) A type X satisfies the Iterator requirements if: — X satisfies the CopyConstructible, CopyAssignable, and Destructible requirements (17.6.3.1) and lvalues of type X are swappable (17.6.3.2), and — the expressions in Table 106 are valid and have the indicated semantics. Table 106 — Iterator requirements Expression *r ++r
Return type reference X&
Operational semantics
Assertion/note pre-/post-condition pre: r is dereferenceable.
266) This definition applies to pointers, since pointers are iterators. The effect of dereferencing an iterator that has been invalidated is undefined.
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Input iterators
[input.iterators]
A class or pointer type X satisfies the requirements of an input iterator for the value type T if X satisfies the Iterator (24.2.2) and EqualityComparable (Table 17) requirements and the expressions in Table 107 are valid and have the indicated semantics. In Table 107, the term the domain of == is used in the ordinary mathematical sense to denote the set of values over which == is (required to be) defined. This set can change over time. Each algorithm places additional requirements on the domain of == for the iterator values it uses. These requirements can be inferred from the uses that algorithm makes of == and !=. [ Example: the call find(a,b,x) is defined only if the value of a has the property p defined as follows: b has property p and a value i has property p if (*i==x) or if (*i!=x and ++i has property p). — end example ] Table 107 — Input iterator requirements (in addition to Iterator) Expression
*a
contextually convertible to bool convertible to T
a->m ++r
X&
(void)r++ *r++
convertible to T
a != b
3
Operational semantics !(a == b)
(*a).m
Assertion/note pre-/post-condition pre: (a, b) is in the domain of ==. pre: a is dereferenceable. The expression (void)*a, *a is equivalent to *a. If a == b and (a,b) is in the domain of == then *a is equivalent to *b. pre: a is dereferenceable. pre: r is dereferenceable. post: r is dereferenceable or r is past-the-end. post: any copies of the previous value of r are no longer required either to be dereferenceable or to be in the domain of ==. equivalent to (void)++r
{ T tmp = *r; ++r; return tmp; }
[ Note: For input iterators, a == b does not imply ++a == ++b. (Equality does not guarantee the substitution property or referential transparency.) Algorithms on input iterators should never attempt to pass through the same iterator twice. They should be single pass algorithms. Value type T is not required to be a CopyAssignable type (Table 23). These algorithms can be used with istreams as the source of the input data through the istream_iterator class template. — end note ]
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Return type
Output iterators
[output.iterators]
A class or pointer type X satisfies the requirements of an output iterator if X satisfies the Iterator requirements (24.2.2) and the expressions in Table 108 are valid and have the indicated semantics.
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Table 108 — Output iterator requirements (in addition to Iterator) Expression
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*r = o
result is not used
++r
X&
r++
convertible to const X&
*r++ = o
result is not used
Operational semantics
{ X tmp = r; ++r; return tmp; }
Assertion/note pre-/post-condition Remark: After this operation r is not required to be dereferenceable. post: r is incrementable. &r == &++r. Remark: After this operation r is not required to be dereferenceable. post: r is incrementable. Remark: After this operation r is not required to be dereferenceable. post: r is incrementable. Remark: After this operation r is not required to be dereferenceable. post: r is incrementable.
[ Note: The only valid use of an operator* is on the left side of the assignment statement. Assignment through the same value of the iterator happens only once. Algorithms on output iterators should never attempt to pass through the same iterator twice. They should be single pass algorithms. Equality and inequality might not be defined. Algorithms that take output iterators can be used with ostreams as the destination for placing data through the ostream_iterator class as well as with insert iterators and insert pointers. — end note ]
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Return type
Forward iterators
[forward.iterators]
A class or pointer type X satisfies the requirements of a forward iterator if — X satisfies the requirements of an input iterator (24.2.3), — X satisfies the DefaultConstructible requirements (17.6.3.1), — if X is a mutable iterator, reference is a reference to T; if X is a const iterator, reference is a reference to const T, — the expressions in Table 109 are valid and have the indicated semantics, and — objects of type X offer the multi-pass guarantee, described below.
2 3
The domain of == for forward iterators is that of iterators over the same underlying sequence. Two dereferenceable iterators a and b of type X offer the multi-pass guarantee if: — a == b implies ++a == ++b and — X is a pointer type or the expression (void)++X(a), *a is equivalent to the expression *a.
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[ Note: The requirement that a == b implies ++a == ++b (which is not true for input and output iterators) and the removal of the restrictions on the number of the assignments through a mutable iterator (which applies to output iterators) allows the use of multi-pass one-directional algorithms with forward iterators. — end note ]
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Table 109 — Forward iterator requirements (in addition to input iterator) Expression
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r++
convertible to const X&
*r++
reference
Operational semantics { X tmp = r; ++r; return tmp; }
Assertion/note pre-/post-condition
If a and b are equal, then either a and b are both dereferenceable or else neither is dereferenceable. If a and b are both dereferenceable, then a == b if and only if *a and *b are bound to the same object.
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Return type
Bidirectional iterators
[bidirectional.iterators]
A class or pointer type X satisfies the requirements of a bidirectional iterator if, in addition to satisfying the requirements for forward iterators, the following expressions are valid as shown in Table 110. Table 110 — Bidirectional iterator requirements (in addition to forward iterator) Expression
2
--r
X&
r--
convertible to const X&
*r--
reference
Operational semantics
Assertion/note pre-/post-condition pre: there exists s such that r == ++s. post: r is dereferenceable. --(++r) == r. --r == --s implies r == s. &r == &--r.
{ X tmp = r; --r; return tmp; }
[ Note: Bidirectional iterators allow algorithms to move iterators backward as well as forward. — end note ]
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Random access iterators
[random.access.iterators]
A class or pointer type X satisfies the requirements of a random access iterator if, in addition to satisfying the requirements for bidirectional iterators, the following expressions are valid as shown in Table 111.
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Table 111 — Random access iterator requirements (in addition to bidirectional iterator) Expression
Return type
r += n
X&
a n r a
X
+ n + a -= n - n
X& X
b - a
difference_type
a[n]
convertible to reference contextually convertible to bool contextually convertible to bool contextually convertible to bool contextually convertible to bool.
a < b
a > b
a >= b
a = 0) while (m--) ++r; else while (m++) --r; return r; } { X tmp = a; return tmp += n; } return r += -n; { X tmp = a; return tmp -= n; } return n
Assertion/note pre-/post-condition
a + n == n + a.
pre: there exists a value n of type difference_type such that a + n == b. b == a + (b - a).
*(a + n) b - a > 0
< is a total ordering relation
b < a
> is a total ordering relation opposite to b)
Header synopsis
[iterator.synopsis]
namespace std { // 24.4, primitives: template struct iterator_traits; template struct iterator_traits; template struct iterator; struct struct struct struct
§ 24.3
input_iterator_tag { }; output_iterator_tag { }; forward_iterator_tag: public input_iterator_tag { }; bidirectional_iterator_tag: public forward_iterator_tag { };
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struct random_access_iterator_tag: public bidirectional_iterator_tag { }; // 24.4.4, iterator operations: template void advance(InputIterator& i, Distance n); template typename iterator_traits::difference_type distance(InputIterator first, InputIterator last); template ForwardIterator next(ForwardIterator x, typename std::iterator_traits::difference_type n = 1); template BidirectionalIterator prev(BidirectionalIterator x, typename std::iterator_traits::difference_type n = 1); // 24.5, predefined iterators: template class reverse_iterator; template bool operator==( const reverse_iterator& x, const reverse_iterator& y); template bool operator( const reverse_iterator& x, const reverse_iterator& y); template bool operator>=( const reverse_iterator& x, const reverse_iterator& y); template bool operatordecltype(y.base() - x.base()); template reverse_iterator operator+( typename reverse_iterator::difference_type n, const reverse_iterator& x); template class back_insert_iterator; template
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back_insert_iterator back_inserter(Container& x); template class front_insert_iterator; template front_insert_iterator front_inserter(Container& x); template class insert_iterator; template insert_iterator inserter(Container& x, typename Container::iterator i); template class move_iterator; template bool operator==( const move_iterator& x, const move_iterator& template bool operator!=( const move_iterator& x, const move_iterator& template bool operator=( const move_iterator& x, const move_iterator&
y);
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y);
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template auto operator-( const move_iterator& x, const move_iterator& y) -> decltype(x.base() - y.base()); template move_iterator operator+( typename move_iterator::difference_type n, const move_iterator& x); template move_iterator make_move_iterator(Iterator i); // 24.6, stream iterators: template class istream_iterator; template bool operator==(const istream_iterator& x, const istream_iterator& y); template bool operator!=(const istream_iterator& x, const istream_iterator& y); template class ostream_iterator; template
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class istreambuf_iterator; template bool operator==(const istreambuf_iterator& a, const istreambuf_iterator& b); template bool operator!=(const istreambuf_iterator& a, const istreambuf_iterator& b); template class ostreambuf_iterator; // 24.7, range access: template auto begin(C& c) -> decltype(c.begin()); template auto begin(const C& c) -> decltype(c.begin()); template auto end(C& c) -> decltype(c.end()); template auto end(const C& c) -> decltype(c.end()); template T* begin(T (&array)[N]); template T* end(T (&array)[N]); }
24.4 1
[iterator.primitives]
To simplify the task of defining iterators, the library provides several classes and functions:
24.4.1 1
Iterator primitives Iterator traits
[iterator.traits]
To implement algorithms only in terms of iterators, it is often necessary to determine the value and difference types that correspond to a particular iterator type. Accordingly, it is required that if Iterator is the type of an iterator, the types iterator_traits::difference_type iterator_traits::value_type iterator_traits::iterator_category
be defined as the iterator’s difference type, value type and iterator category, respectively. In addition, the types iterator_traits::reference iterator_traits::pointer
shall be defined as the iterator’s reference and pointer types, that is, for an iterator object a, the same type as the type of *a and a->, respectively. In the case of an output iterator, the types iterator_traits::difference_type iterator_traits::value_type iterator_traits::reference iterator_traits::pointer 2
may be defined as void. The template iterator_traits is defined as namespace std { template struct iterator_traits { typedef typename Iterator::difference_type difference_type; typedef typename Iterator::value_type value_type; typedef typename Iterator::pointer pointer; typedef typename Iterator::reference reference; typedef typename Iterator::iterator_category iterator_category; }; }
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It is specialized for pointers as namespace std { template struct iterator_traits { typedef ptrdiff_t difference_type; typedef T value_type; typedef T* pointer; typedef T& reference; typedef random_access_iterator_tag iterator_category; }; }
and for pointers to const as namespace std { template struct iterator_traits { typedef ptrdiff_t difference_type; typedef T value_type; typedef const T* pointer; typedef const T& reference; typedef random_access_iterator_tag iterator_category; }; } 4
[ Note: If there is an additional pointer type _ _ far such that the difference of two _ _ far is of type long, an implementation may define template struct iterator_traits { typedef long difference_type; typedef T value_type; typedef T _ _ far* pointer; typedef T _ _ far& reference; typedef random_access_iterator_tag iterator_category; };
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— end note ] [ Example: To implement a generic reverse function, a C++ program can do the following: template void reverse(BidirectionalIterator first, BidirectionalIterator last) { typename iterator_traits::difference_type n = distance(first, last); --n; while(n > 0) { typename iterator_traits::value_type tmp = *first; *first++ = *--last; *last = tmp; n -= 2; } }
— end example ]
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Basic iterator
[iterator.basic]
The iterator template may be used as a base class to ease the definition of required types for new iterators. namespace std { template struct iterator { typedef T value_type; typedef Distance difference_type; typedef Pointer pointer; typedef Reference reference; typedef Category iterator_category; }; }
24.4.3 1
Standard iterator tags
[std.iterator.tags]
It is often desirable for a function template specialization to find out what is the most specific category of its iterator argument, so that the function can select the most efficient algorithm at compile time. To facilitate this, the library introduces category tag classes which are used as compile time tags for algorithm selection. They are: input_iterator_tag, output_iterator_tag, forward_iterator_tag, bidirectional_iterator_tag and random_access_iterator_tag. For every iterator of type Iterator, iterator_traits::iterator_category shall be defined to be the most specific category tag that describes the iterator’s behavior. namespace std { struct input_iterator_tag { }; struct output_iterator_tag { }; struct forward_iterator_tag: public input_iterator_tag { }; struct bidirectional_iterator_tag: public forward_iterator_tag { }; struct random_access_iterator_tag: public bidirectional_iterator_tag { }; }
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[ Example: For a program-defined iterator BinaryTreeIterator, it could be included into the bidirectional iterator category by specializing the iterator_traits template: template struct iterator_traits { typedef std::ptrdiff_t difference_type; typedef T value_type; typedef T* pointer; typedef T& reference; typedef bidirectional_iterator_tag iterator_category; };
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Typically, however, it would be easier to derive BinaryTreeIterator from iterator. — end example ] [ Example: If evolve() is well defined for bidirectional iterators, but can be implemented more efficiently for random access iterators, then the implementation is as follows: template inline void evolve(BidirectionalIterator first, BidirectionalIterator last) { evolve(first, last, typename iterator_traits::iterator_category()); } template void evolve(BidirectionalIterator first, BidirectionalIterator last, bidirectional_iterator_tag) { // more generic, but less efficient algorithm }
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template void evolve(RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator last, random_access_iterator_tag) { // more efficient, but less generic algorithm } 4
— end example ] [ Example: If a C++ program wants to define a bidirectional iterator for some data structure containing double and such that it works on a large memory model of the implementation, it can do so with: class MyIterator : public iterator { // code implementing ++, etc. };
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Then there is no need to specialize the iterator_traits template. — end example ]
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Iterator operations
[iterator.operations]
Since only random access iterators provide + and - operators, the library provides two function templates advance and distance. These function templates use + and - for random access iterators (and are, therefore, constant time for them); for input, forward and bidirectional iterators they use ++ to provide linear time implementations. template void advance(InputIterator& i, Distance n);
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Requires: n shall be negative only for bidirectional and random access iterators.
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Effects: Increments (or decrements for negative n) iterator reference i by n. template typename iterator_traits::difference_type distance(InputIterator first, InputIterator last);
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Effects: If InputIterator meets the requirements of random access iterator, returns (last - first); otherwise, returns the number of increments needed to get from first to last.
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Requires: If InputIterator meets the requirements of random access iterator, last shall be reachable from first or first shall be reachable from last; otherwise, last shall be reachable from first. template ForwardIterator next(ForwardIterator x, typename std::iterator_traits::difference_type n = 1);
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Effects: Equivalent to advance(x, n); return x; template BidirectionalIterator prev(BidirectionalIterator x, typename std::iterator_traits::difference_type n = 1);
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Effects: Equivalent to advance(x, -n); return x;
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Iterator adaptors
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Reverse iterators
[predef.iterators] [reverse.iterators]
Class template reverse_iterator is an iterator adaptor that iterates from the end of the sequence defined by its underlying iterator to the beginning of that sequence. The fundamental relation between a reverse iterator and its corresponding iterator i is established by the identity: &*(reverse_iterator(i)) == &*(i - 1). 24.5.1.1 Class template reverse_iterator [reverse.iterator] namespace std { template class reverse_iterator : public iterator { public: typedef Iterator iterator_type; typedef typename iterator_traits::difference_type difference_type; typedef typename iterator_traits::reference reference; typedef typename iterator_traits::pointer pointer; reverse_iterator(); explicit reverse_iterator(Iterator x); template reverse_iterator(const reverse_iterator& u); template reverse_iterator& operator=(const reverse_iterator& u); Iterator base() const; // explicit reference operator*() const; pointer operator->() const; reverse_iterator& reverse_iterator reverse_iterator& reverse_iterator
operator++(); operator++(int); operator--(); operator--(int);
reverse_iterator operator+ (difference_type n) const; reverse_iterator& operator+=(difference_type n); reverse_iterator operator- (difference_type n) const; reverse_iterator& operator-=(difference_type n); unspecified operator[](difference_type n) const; protected: Iterator current; private: Iterator deref_tmp; // exposition only }; template bool operator==( const reverse_iterator& x, const reverse_iterator& y); template bool operator( const reverse_iterator& x, const reverse_iterator& y); template bool operator>=( const reverse_iterator& x, const reverse_iterator& y); template bool operator decltype(y.current - x.current); template reverse_iterator operator+( typename reverse_iterator::difference_type n, const reverse_iterator& x); }
24.5.1.2 1 2
reverse_iterator requirements
[reverse.iter.requirements]
The template parameter Iterator shall meet all the requirements of a Bidirectional Iterator (24.2.6). Additionally, Iterator shall meet the requirements of a Random Access Iterator (24.2.7) if any of the members operator+ (24.5.1.3.8), operator- (24.5.1.3.10), operator+= (24.5.1.3.9), operator-= (24.5.1.3.11), operator [] (24.5.1.3.12), or the global operators operator< (24.5.1.3.14), operator> (24.5.1.3.16), operator = (24.5.1.3.17), operator- (24.5.1.3.19) or operator+ (24.5.1.3.20) are referenced in a way that requires instantiation (14.7.1). 24.5.1.3 reverse_iterator operations [reverse.iter.ops] 24.5.1.3.1
reverse_iterator constructor
[reverse.iter.cons]
reverse_iterator(); 1
Effects: Value initializes current. Iterator operations applied to the resulting iterator have defined behavior if and only if the corresponding operations are defined on a value-initialized iterator of type Iterator. explicit reverse_iterator(Iterator x);
2
Effects: Initializes current with x. template reverse_iterator(const reverse_iterator &u);
3
Effects: Initializes current with u.current.
§ 24.5.1.3.1
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reverse_iterator::operator=
[reverse.iter.op=]
template reverse_iterator& operator=(const reverse_iterator& u); 1
Effects: Assigns u.base() to current.
2
Returns: *this. 24.5.1.3.3
Conversion
Iterator base() const; 1
[reverse.iter.conv] // explicit
Returns: current. 24.5.1.3.4
operator*
[reverse.iter.op.star]
reference operator*() const; 1
Effects: deref_tmp = current; --deref_tmp; return *deref_tmp;
2
[ Note: This operation must use an auxiliary member variable rather than a temporary variable to avoid returning a reference that persists beyond the lifetime of its associated iterator. (See 24.2.) — end note ] 24.5.1.3.5
operator->
[reverse.iter.opref]
pointer operator->() const; 1
Returns: &(operator*()). 24.5.1.3.6
operator++
[reverse.iter.op++]
reverse_iterator& operator++(); 1
Effects: --current;
2
Returns: *this. reverse_iterator operator++(int);
3
Effects: reverse_iterator tmp = *this; --current; return tmp;
24.5.1.3.7
operator--
[reverse.iter.op--]
reverse_iterator& operator--(); 1
Effects: ++current
2
Returns: *this. reverse_iterator operator--(int);
§ 24.5.1.3.7
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Effects: reverse_iterator tmp = *this; ++current; return tmp;
24.5.1.3.8
operator+
[reverse.iter.op+]
reverse_iterator operator+(typename reverse_iterator::difference_type n) const; 1
Returns: reverse_iterator(current-n). 24.5.1.3.9
operator+=
[reverse.iter.op+=]
reverse_iterator& operator+=(typename reverse_iterator::difference_type n); 1
Effects: current -= n;
2
Returns: *this. 24.5.1.3.10
operator-
[reverse.iter.op-]
reverse_iterator operator-(typename reverse_iterator::difference_type n) const; 1
Returns: reverse_iterator(current+n). 24.5.1.3.11
operator-=
[reverse.iter.op-=]
reverse_iterator& operator-=(typename reverse_iterator::difference_type n); 1
Effects: current += n;
2
Returns: *this. 24.5.1.3.12
operator[]
[reverse.iter.opindex]
unspecified operator[]( typename reverse_iterator::difference_type n) const; 1
Returns: current[-n-1]. 24.5.1.3.13
operator==
[reverse.iter.op==]
template bool operator==( const reverse_iterator& x, const reverse_iterator& y); 1
Returns: x.current == y.current. 24.5.1.3.14
operator
]
template bool operator>( const reverse_iterator& x, const reverse_iterator& y); 1
Returns: x.current < y.current. 24.5.1.3.17
operator>=
[reverse.iter.op>=]
template bool operator>=( const reverse_iterator& x, const reverse_iterator& y); 1
Returns: x.current push_back(std::move(value));
4
Returns: *this. 24.5.2.2.3
back_insert_iterator::operator*
[back.insert.iter.op*]
back_insert_iterator& operator*(); 1
Returns: *this. 24.5.2.2.4
back_insert_iterator::operator++
[back.insert.iter.op++]
back_insert_iterator& operator++(); back_insert_iterator operator++(int); 1
Returns: *this. 24.5.2.2.5
back_inserter
[back.inserter]
template back_insert_iterator back_inserter(Container& x); 1
Returns: back_insert_iterator(x). 24.5.2.3
Class template front_insert_iterator
[front.insert.iterator]
namespace std { template class front_insert_iterator : public iterator { protected: Container* container; public: typedef Container container_type; explicit front_insert_iterator(Container& x); front_insert_iterator& operator=(const typename Container::value_type& value); front_insert_iterator& operator=(typename Container::value_type&& value); front_insert_iterator& operator*(); front_insert_iterator& operator++(); front_insert_iterator operator++(int); }; template front_insert_iterator front_inserter(Container& x); }
24.5.2.4 24.5.2.4.1
front_insert_iterator operations front_insert_iterator constructor
[front.insert.iter.ops] [front.insert.iter.cons]
explicit front_insert_iterator(Container& x); 1
Effects: Initializes container with &x.
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front_insert_iterator::operator=
[front.insert.iter.op=]
front_insert_iterator& operator=(const typename Container::value_type& value); 1
Effects: container->push_front(value);
2
Returns: *this. front_insert_iterator& operator=(typename Container::value_type&& value);
3
Effects: container->push_front(std::move(value));
4
Returns: *this. 24.5.2.4.3
front_insert_iterator::operator*
[front.insert.iter.op*]
front_insert_iterator& operator*(); 1
Returns: *this. 24.5.2.4.4
front_insert_iterator::operator++
[front.insert.iter.op++]
front_insert_iterator& operator++(); front_insert_iterator operator++(int); 1
Returns: *this. 24.5.2.4.5
front_inserter
[front.inserter]
template front_insert_iterator front_inserter(Container& x); 1
Returns: front_insert_iterator(x). 24.5.2.5
Class template insert_iterator
[insert.iterator]
namespace std { template class insert_iterator : public iterator { protected: Container* container; typename Container::iterator iter; public: typedef Container container_type; insert_iterator(Container& x, typename Container::iterator i); insert_iterator& operator=(const typename Container::value_type& value); insert_iterator& operator=(typename Container::value_type&& value); insert_iterator& operator*(); insert_iterator& operator++(); insert_iterator& operator++(int); };
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template insert_iterator inserter(Container& x, typename Container::iterator i); }
24.5.2.6
insert_iterator operations
24.5.2.6.1
insert_iterator constructor
[insert.iter.ops] [insert.iter.cons]
insert_iterator(Container& x, typename Container::iterator i); 1
Effects: Initializes container with &x and iter with i. 24.5.2.6.2
insert_iterator::operator=
[insert.iter.op=]
insert_iterator& operator=(const typename Container::value_type& value); 1
Effects: iter = container->insert(iter, value); ++iter;
2
Returns: *this. insert_iterator& operator=(typename Container::value_type&& value);
3
Effects: iter = container->insert(iter, std::move(value)); ++iter;
4
Returns: *this. 24.5.2.6.3
insert_iterator::operator*
[insert.iter.op*]
insert_iterator& operator*(); 1
Returns: *this. 24.5.2.6.4
insert_iterator::operator++
[insert.iter.op++]
insert_iterator& operator++(); insert_iterator& operator++(int); 1
Returns: *this. 24.5.2.6.5
[inserter]
inserter
template insert_iterator inserter(Container& x, typename Container::iterator i); 1
Returns: insert_iterator(x, i).
24.5.3 1
2
Move iterators
[move.iterators]
Class template move_iterator is an iterator adaptor with the same behavior as the underlying iterator except that its dereference operator implicitly converts the value returned by the underlying iterator’s dereference operator to an rvalue reference. Some generic algorithms can be called with move iterators to replace copying with moving. [ Example: § 24.5.3
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list s; // populate the list s vector v1(s.begin(), s.end()); // copies strings into v1 vector v2(make_move_iterator(s.begin()), make_move_iterator(s.end())); // moves strings into v2
— end example ] 24.5.3.1 Class template move_iterator
[move.iterator]
namespace std { template class move_iterator { public: typedef Iterator typedef typename iterator_traits::difference_type typedef Iterator typedef typename iterator_traits::value_type typedef typename iterator_traits::iterator_category typedef value_type&&
iterator_type; difference_type; pointer; value_type; iterator_category; reference;
move_iterator(); explicit move_iterator(Iterator i); template move_iterator(const move_iterator& u); template move_iterator& operator=(const move_iterator& u); iterator_type base() const; reference operator*() const; pointer operator->() const; move_iterator& operator++(); move_iterator operator++(int); move_iterator& operator--(); move_iterator operator--(int); move_iterator operator+(difference_type n) const; move_iterator& operator+=(difference_type n); move_iterator operator-(difference_type n) const; move_iterator& operator-=(difference_type n); unspecified operator[](difference_type n) const; private: Iterator current; };
// exposition only
template bool operator==( const move_iterator& x, const template bool operator!=( const move_iterator& x, const template bool operator=( const move_iterator& x, const move_iterator& y); template auto operator-( const move_iterator& x, const move_iterator& y) -> decltype(x.base() - y.base()); template move_iterator operator+( typename move_iterator::difference_type n, const move_iterator& x); template move_iterator make_move_iterator(Iterator i); }
24.5.3.2 1
move_iterator requirements
[move.iter.requirements]
The template parameter Iterator shall meet the requirements for an Input Iterator (24.2.3). Additionally, if any of the bidirectional or random access traversal functions are instantiated, the template parameter shall meet the requirements for a Bidirectional Iterator (24.2.6) or a Random Access Iterator (24.2.7), respectively. 24.5.3.3 move_iterator operations [move.iter.ops] 24.5.3.3.1
move_iterator constructors
[move.iter.op.const]
move_iterator(); 1
Effects: Constructs a move_iterator, value initializing current. Iterator operations applied to the resulting iterator have defined behavior if and only if the corresponding operations are defined on a value-initialized iterator of type Iterator. explicit move_iterator(Iterator i);
2
Effects: Constructs a move_iterator, initializing current with i. template move_iterator(const move_iterator& u);
3
Effects: Constructs a move_iterator, initializing current with u.base().
4
Requires: U shall be convertible to Iterator. 24.5.3.3.2
move_iterator::operator=
[move.iter.op=]
template move_iterator& operator=(const move_iterator& u); 1
Effects: Assigns u.base() to current.
2
Requires: U shall be convertible to Iterator. 24.5.3.3.3
move_iterator conversion
[move.iter.op.conv]
Iterator base() const; 1
Returns: current.
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move_iterator::operator*
[move.iter.op.star]
reference operator*() const; 1
Returns: std::move(*current). 24.5.3.3.5
move_iterator::operator->
[move.iter.op.ref]
pointer operator->() const; 1
Returns: current. 24.5.3.3.6
move_iterator::operator++
[move.iter.op.incr]
move_iterator& operator++(); 1
Effects: ++current.
2
Returns: *this. move_iterator operator++(int);
3
Effects: move_iterator tmp = *this; ++current; return tmp;
24.5.3.3.7
move_iterator::operator--
[move.iter.op.decr]
move_iterator& operator--(); 1
Effects: --current.
2
Returns: *this. move_iterator operator--(int);
3
Effects: move_iterator tmp = *this; --current; return tmp;
24.5.3.3.8
move_iterator::operator+
[move.iter.op.+]
move_iterator operator+(difference_type n) const; 1
Returns: move_iterator(current + n). 24.5.3.3.9
move_iterator::operator+=
[move.iter.op.+=]
move_iterator& operator+=(difference_type n); 1
Effects: current += n.
2
Returns: *this. 24.5.3.3.10
move_iterator::operator-
[move.iter.op.-]
move_iterator operator-(difference_type n) const; 1
Returns: move_iterator(current - n). § 24.5.3.3.10
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move_iterator::operator-=
[move.iter.op.-=]
move_iterator& operator-=(difference_type n); 1
Effects: current -= n.
2
Returns: *this.
1
24.5.3.3.12
move_iterator::operator[]
unspecified
operator[](difference_type n) const;
[move.iter.op.index]
Returns: std::move(current[n]). 24.5.3.3.13
move_iterator comparisons
[move.iter.op.comp]
template bool operator==(const move_iterator& x, const move_iterator& y); 1
Returns: x.base() == y.base(). template bool operator!=(const move_iterator& x, const move_iterator& y);
2
Returns: !(x == y). template bool operator=(const move_iterator& x, const move_iterator& y);
6
Returns: !(x < y). 24.5.3.3.14
move_iterator non-member functions
[move.iter.nonmember]
template auto operator-( const move_iterator& x, const move_iterator& y) -> decltype(x.base() - y.base()); 1
Returns: x.base() - y.base().
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template move_iterator operator+( typename move_iterator::difference_type n, const move_iterator& x); 2
Returns: x + n. template move_iterator make_move_iterator(Iterator i);
3
Returns: move_iterator(i).
24.6 1
Stream iterators
[stream.iterators]
To make it possible for algorithmic templates to work directly with input/output streams, appropriate iterator-like class templates are provided. [ Example: partial_sum_copy(istream_iterator(cin), istream_iterator(), ostream_iterator(cout, "\n"));
reads a file containing floating point numbers from cin, and prints the partial sums onto cout. — end example ]
24.6.1 1
2
Class template istream_iterator
[istream.iterator]
The class template istream_iterator is an input iterator (24.2.3) that reads (using operator>>) successive elements from the input stream for which it was constructed. After it is constructed, and every time ++ is used, the iterator reads and stores a value of T. If the iterator fails to read and store a value of T (fail() on the stream returns true), the iterator becomes equal to the end-of-stream iterator value. The constructor with no arguments istream_iterator() always constructs an end-of-stream input iterator object, which is the only legitimate iterator to be used for the end condition. The result of operator* on an end-of-stream iterator is not defined. For any other iterator value a const T& is returned. The result of operator-> on an end-of-stream iterator is not defined. For any other iterator value a const T* is returned. The behavior of a program that applies operator++() to an end-of-stream iterator is undefined. It is impossible to store things into istream iterators. Two end-of-stream iterators are always equal. An end-of-stream iterator is not equal to a non-end-of-stream iterator. Two non-end-of-stream iterators are equal when they are constructed from the same stream. namespace std { template class istream_iterator: public iterator { public: typedef charT char_type; typedef traits traits_type; typedef basic_istream istream_type; see below istream_iterator(); istream_iterator(istream_type& s); istream_iterator(const istream_iterator& x) = default; ~istream_iterator() = default; const T& operator*() const; const T* operator->() const; istream_iterator& operator++();
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istream_iterator operator++(int); private: basic_istream* in_stream; // exposition only T value; // exposition only }; template bool operator==(const istream_iterator& x, const istream_iterator& y); template bool operator!=(const istream_iterator& x, const istream_iterator& y); }
24.6.1.1
istream_iterator constructors and destructor
[istream.iterator.cons]
see below istream_iterator(); 1
Effects: Constructs the end-of-stream iterator. If T is a literal type, then this constructor shall be a constexpr constructor.
2
Postcondition: in_stream == 0. istream_iterator(istream_type& s);
3
Effects: Initializes in_stream with &s. value may be initialized during construction or the first time it is referenced.
4
Postcondition: in_stream == &s. istream_iterator(const istream_iterator& x) = default;
5
Effects: Constructs a copy of x. If T is a literal type, then this constructor shall be a trivial copy constructor.
6
Postcondition: in_stream == x.in_stream. ~istream_iterator() = default;
7
Effects: The iterator is destroyed. If T is a literal type, then this destructor shall be a trivial destructor. 24.6.1.2
istream_iterator operations
[istream.iterator.ops]
const T& operator*() const; 1
Returns: value. const T* operator->() const;
2
Returns: &(operator*()). istream_iterator& operator++();
3
Requires: in_stream != 0.
4
Effects: *in_stream » value.
5
Returns: *this. § 24.6.1.2
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istream_iterator operator++(int); 6
Requires: in_stream != 0.
7
Effects: istream_iterator tmp = *this; *in_stream >> value; return (tmp);
template bool operator==(const istream_iterator &x, const istream_iterator &y); 8
Returns: x.in_stream == y.in_stream. template bool operator!=(const istream_iterator &x, const istream_iterator &y);
9
Returns: !(x == y)
24.6.2 1
Class template ostream_iterator
[ostream.iterator]
ostream_iterator writes (using operatorsbumpc().
2
Returns: *this. proxy istreambuf_iterator::operator++(int);
3
Returns: proxy(sbuf_->sbumpc(), sbuf_). 24.6.3.5
istreambuf_iterator::equal
[istreambuf.iterator::equal]
bool equal(const istreambuf_iterator& b) const; 1
Returns: true if and only if both iterators are at end-of-stream, or neither is at end-of-stream, regardless of what streambuf object they use. 24.6.3.6
operator==
[istreambuf.iterator::op==]
template bool operator==(const istreambuf_iterator& a, const istreambuf_iterator& b); 1
Returns: a.equal(b). 24.6.3.7
operator!=
[istreambuf.iterator::op!=]
template bool operator!=(const istreambuf_iterator& a, const istreambuf_iterator& b); 1
Returns: !a.equal(b). § 24.6.3.7
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Class template ostreambuf_iterator
[ostreambuf.iterator]
namespace std { template class ostreambuf_iterator : public iterator { public: typedef charT char_type; typedef traits traits_type; typedef basic_streambuf streambuf_type; typedef basic_ostream ostream_type; public: ostreambuf_iterator(ostream_type& s) noexcept; ostreambuf_iterator(streambuf_type* s) noexcept; ostreambuf_iterator& operator=(charT c); ostreambuf_iterator& operator*(); ostreambuf_iterator& operator++(); ostreambuf_iterator& operator++(int); bool failed() const noexcept; private: streambuf_type* sbuf_; };
// exposition only
} 1
The class template ostreambuf_iterator writes successive characters onto the output stream from which it was constructed. It is not possible to get a character value out of the output iterator. 24.6.4.1 ostreambuf_iterator constructors [ostreambuf.iter.cons] ostreambuf_iterator(ostream_type& s) noexcept;
1
Requires: s.rdbuf() shall not null pointer.
2
Effects: :sbuf_(s.rdbuf()) {}. ostreambuf_iterator(streambuf_type* s) noexcept;
3
Requires: s shall not be a null pointer.
4
Effects: : 24.6.4.2
sbuf_(s) {}.
ostreambuf_iterator operations
[ostreambuf.iter.ops]
ostreambuf_iterator& operator=(charT c); 1
Effects: If failed() yields false, calls sbuf_->sputc(c); otherwise has no effect.
2
Returns: *this. ostreambuf_iterator& operator*();
3
Returns: *this.
§ 24.6.4.2
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ostreambuf_iterator& operator++(); ostreambuf_iterator& operator++(int); 4
Returns: *this. bool failed() const noexcept;
5
Returns: true if in any prior use of member operator=, the call to sbuf_->sputc() returned traits::eof(); or false otherwise.
24.7 1
range access
[iterator.range]
In addition to being available via inclusion of the header, the function templates in 24.7 are available when any of the following headers are included: , , , , , , , , , , and . template auto begin(C& c) -> decltype(c.begin()); template auto begin(const C& c) -> decltype(c.begin());
2
Returns: c.begin(). template auto end(C& c) -> decltype(c.end()); template auto end(const C& c) -> decltype(c.end());
3
Returns: c.end(). template T* begin(T (&array)[N]);
4
Returns: array. template T* end(T (&array)[N]);
5
Returns: array + N.
§ 24.7
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2
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Algorithms library
[algorithms]
General
[algorithms.general]
This Clause describes components that C++ programs may use to perform algorithmic operations on containers (Clause 23) and other sequences. The following subclauses describe components for non-modifying sequence operation, modifying sequence operations, sorting and related operations, and algorithms from the ISO C library, as summarized in Table 112. Table 112 — Algorithms library summary
25.2 25.3 25.4 25.5
Subclause Non-modifying sequence operations Mutating sequence operations Sorting and related operations C library algorithms
Header(s)
Header synopsis #include namespace std { // 25.2, non-modifying sequence operations: template bool all_of(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, Predicate pred); template bool any_of(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, Predicate pred); template bool none_of(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, Predicate pred); template Function for_each(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, Function f); template InputIterator find(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, const T& value); template InputIterator find_if(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, Predicate pred); template InputIterator find_if_not(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, Predicate pred); template ForwardIterator1 find_end(ForwardIterator1 first1, ForwardIterator1 last1, ForwardIterator2 first2, ForwardIterator2 last2); template ForwardIterator1
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find_end(ForwardIterator1 first1, ForwardIterator1 last1, ForwardIterator2 first2, ForwardIterator2 last2, BinaryPredicate pred); template InputIterator find_first_of(InputIterator first1, InputIterator last1, ForwardIterator first2, ForwardIterator last2); template InputIterator find_first_of(InputIterator first1, InputIterator last1, ForwardIterator first2, ForwardIterator last2, BinaryPredicate pred); template ForwardIterator adjacent_find(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last); template ForwardIterator adjacent_find(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, BinaryPredicate pred); template typename iterator_traits::difference_type count(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, const T& value); template typename iterator_traits::difference_type count_if(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, Predicate pred); template pair mismatch(InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1, InputIterator2 first2); template
pair mismatch(InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1, InputIterator2 first2, BinaryPredicate pred); template bool equal(InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1, InputIterator2 first2); template
bool equal(InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1, InputIterator2 first2, BinaryPredicate pred); template bool is_permutation(ForwardIterator1 first1, ForwardIterator1 last1, ForwardIterator2 first2); template bool is_permutation(ForwardIterator1 first1, ForwardIterator1 last1, ForwardIterator2 first2, BinaryPredicate pred);
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template ForwardIterator1 search( ForwardIterator1 first1, ForwardIterator1 last1, ForwardIterator2 first2, ForwardIterator2 last2); template ForwardIterator1 search( ForwardIterator1 first1, ForwardIterator1 last1, ForwardIterator2 first2, ForwardIterator2 last2, BinaryPredicate pred); template ForwardIterator search_n(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, Size count, const T& value); template
ForwardIterator1 search_n(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, Size count, const T& value, BinaryPredicate pred); // 25.3, modifying sequence operations: // 25.3.1, copy: template OutputIterator copy(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, OutputIterator result); template OutputIterator copy_n(InputIterator first, Size n, OutputIterator result); template OutputIterator copy_if(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, OutputIterator result, Predicate pred); template BidirectionalIterator2 copy_backward( BidirectionalIterator1 first, BidirectionalIterator1 last, BidirectionalIterator2 result); // 25.3.2, move: template OutputIterator move(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, OutputIterator result); template BidirectionalIterator2 move_backward( BidirectionalIterator1 first, BidirectionalIterator1 last, BidirectionalIterator2 result); // 25.3.3, swap: template ForwardIterator2 swap_ranges(ForwardIterator1 first1, ForwardIterator1 last1, ForwardIterator2 first2); template void iter_swap(ForwardIterator1 a, ForwardIterator2 b); template OutputIterator transform(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, OutputIterator result, UnaryOperation op);
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template OutputIterator transform(InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1, InputIterator2 first2, OutputIterator result, BinaryOperation binary_op); template void replace(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, const T& old_value, const T& new_value); template void replace_if(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, Predicate pred, const T& new_value); template OutputIterator replace_copy(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, OutputIterator result, const T& old_value, const T& new_value); template OutputIterator replace_copy_if(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, OutputIterator result, Predicate pred, const T& new_value); template void fill(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, const T& value); template OutputIterator fill_n(OutputIterator first, Size n, const T& value); template void generate(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, Generator gen); template OutputIterator generate_n(OutputIterator first, Size n, Generator gen); template ForwardIterator remove(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, const T& value); template ForwardIterator remove_if(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, Predicate pred); template OutputIterator remove_copy(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, OutputIterator result, const T& value); template OutputIterator remove_copy_if(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, OutputIterator result, Predicate pred); template ForwardIterator unique(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last); template ForwardIterator unique(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, BinaryPredicate pred); template OutputIterator unique_copy(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, OutputIterator result); template OutputIterator unique_copy(InputIterator first, InputIterator last,
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OutputIterator result, BinaryPredicate pred); template void reverse(BidirectionalIterator first, BidirectionalIterator last); template OutputIterator reverse_copy(BidirectionalIterator first, BidirectionalIterator last, OutputIterator result); template ForwardIterator rotate(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator middle, ForwardIterator last); template OutputIterator rotate_copy( ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator middle, ForwardIterator last, OutputIterator result); template void random_shuffle(RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator last); template void random_shuffle(RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator last, RandomNumberGenerator&& rand); template void shuffle(RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator last, UniformRandomNumberGenerator&& rand); // 25.3.13, partitions: template bool is_partitioned(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, Predicate pred); template ForwardIterator partition(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, Predicate pred); template BidirectionalIterator stable_partition(BidirectionalIterator first, BidirectionalIterator last, Predicate pred); template pair partition_copy(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, OutputIterator1 out_true, OutputIterator2 out_false, Predicate pred); template ForwardIterator partition_point(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, Predicate pred); // 25.4, sorting and related operations: // 25.4.1, sorting: template
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void sort(RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator last); template void sort(RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator last, Compare comp); template void stable_sort(RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator last); template void stable_sort(RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator last, Compare comp); template void partial_sort(RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator middle, RandomAccessIterator last); template void partial_sort(RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator middle, RandomAccessIterator last, Compare comp); template RandomAccessIterator partial_sort_copy( InputIterator first, InputIterator last, RandomAccessIterator result_first, RandomAccessIterator result_last); template RandomAccessIterator partial_sort_copy( InputIterator first, InputIterator last, RandomAccessIterator result_first, RandomAccessIterator result_last, Compare comp); template bool is_sorted(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last); template bool is_sorted(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, Compare comp); template ForwardIterator is_sorted_until(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last); template ForwardIterator is_sorted_until(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, Compare comp); template void nth_element(RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator nth, RandomAccessIterator last); template void nth_element(RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator nth, RandomAccessIterator last, Compare comp); // 25.4.3, binary search: template ForwardIterator lower_bound(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, const T& value); template ForwardIterator lower_bound(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, const T& value, Compare comp);
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template ForwardIterator upper_bound(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, const T& value); template ForwardIterator upper_bound(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, const T& value, Compare comp); template pair equal_range(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, const T& value); template pair equal_range(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, const T& value, Compare comp); template bool binary_search(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, const T& value); template bool binary_search(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, const T& value, Compare comp); // 25.4.4, merge: template OutputIterator merge(InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1, InputIterator2 first2, InputIterator2 last2, OutputIterator result); template OutputIterator merge(InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1, InputIterator2 first2, InputIterator2 last2, OutputIterator result, Compare comp); template void inplace_merge(BidirectionalIterator first, BidirectionalIterator middle, BidirectionalIterator last); template void inplace_merge(BidirectionalIterator first, BidirectionalIterator middle, BidirectionalIterator last, Compare comp); // 25.4.5, set operations: template bool includes(InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1, InputIterator2 first2, InputIterator2 last2); template bool includes( InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1, InputIterator2 first2, InputIterator2 last2, Compare comp); template OutputIterator set_union(InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1,
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InputIterator2 first2, InputIterator2 last2, OutputIterator result); template OutputIterator set_union(InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1, InputIterator2 first2, InputIterator2 last2, OutputIterator result, Compare comp); template OutputIterator set_intersection( InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1, InputIterator2 first2, InputIterator2 last2, OutputIterator result); template OutputIterator set_intersection( InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1, InputIterator2 first2, InputIterator2 last2, OutputIterator result, Compare comp); template OutputIterator set_difference( InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1, InputIterator2 first2, InputIterator2 last2, OutputIterator result); template OutputIterator set_difference( InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1, InputIterator2 first2, InputIterator2 last2, OutputIterator result, Compare comp); template OutputIterator set_symmetric_difference( InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1, InputIterator2 first2, InputIterator2 last2, OutputIterator result); template OutputIterator set_symmetric_difference( InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1, InputIterator2 first2, InputIterator2 last2, OutputIterator result, Compare comp); // 25.4.6, heap operations: template void push_heap(RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator last); template void push_heap(RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator last, Compare comp); template void pop_heap(RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator last); template void pop_heap(RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator last,
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Compare comp); template void make_heap(RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator last); template void make_heap(RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator last, Compare comp); template void sort_heap(RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator last); template void sort_heap(RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator last, Compare comp); template bool is_heap(RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator last); template bool is_heap(RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator last, Compare comp); template RandomAccessIterator is_heap_until(RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator last); template RandomAccessIterator is_heap_until(RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator last, Compare comp); // 25.4.7, minimum and maximum: template const T& min(const T& a, const T& b); template const T& min(const T& a, const T& b, Compare comp); template T min(initializer_list t); template T min(initializer_list t, Compare comp); template const T& max(const T& a, const T& b); template const T& max(const T& a, const T& b, Compare comp); template T max(initializer_list t); template T max(initializer_list t, Compare comp); template pair minmax(const T& a, const T& b); template pair minmax(const T& a, const T& b, Compare comp); template pair minmax(initializer_list t); template pair minmax(initializer_list t, Compare comp); template ForwardIterator min_element(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last); template ForwardIterator min_element(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, Compare comp); template
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ForwardIterator max_element(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last); template ForwardIterator max_element(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, Compare comp); template pair minmax_element(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last); template pair minmax_element(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, Compare comp); template bool lexicographical_compare( InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1, InputIterator2 first2, InputIterator2 last2); template bool lexicographical_compare( InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1, InputIterator2 first2, InputIterator2 last2, Compare comp); // 25.4.9, permutations: template bool next_permutation(BidirectionalIterator first, BidirectionalIterator last); template bool next_permutation(BidirectionalIterator first, BidirectionalIterator last, Compare comp); template bool prev_permutation(BidirectionalIterator first, BidirectionalIterator last); template bool prev_permutation(BidirectionalIterator first, BidirectionalIterator last, Compare comp); } 3
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All of the algorithms are separated from the particular implementations of data structures and are parameterized by iterator types. Because of this, they can work with program-defined data structures, as long as these data structures have iterator types satisfying the assumptions on the algorithms. For purposes of determining the existence of data races, algorithms shall not modify objects referenced through an iterator argument unless the specification requires such modification. Throughout this Clause, the names of template parameters are used to express type requirements. If an algorithm’s template parameter is InputIterator, InputIterator1, or InputIterator2, the actual template argument shall satisfy the requirements of an input iterator (24.2.3). If an algorithm’s template parameter is OutputIterator, OutputIterator1, or OutputIterator2, the actual template argument shall satisfy the requirements of an output iterator (24.2.4). If an algorithm’s template parameter is ForwardIterator, ForwardIterator1, or ForwardIterator2, the actual template argument shall satisfy the requirements of a forward iterator (24.2.5). If an algorithm’s template parameter is BidirectionalIterator, BidirectionalIterator1, or BidirectionalIterator2, the actual template argument shall satisfy the requirements of a bidirectional iterator (24.2.6). If an algorithm’s template parameter is RandomAccessIterator, RandomAccessIterator1, or RandomAccessIterator2, the actual template argument shall satisfy the requirements of a random-access iterator (24.2.7). If an algorithm’s Effects section says that a value pointed to by any iterator passed as an argument is modified, then that algorithm has an additional type requirement: The type of that argument shall satisfy § 25.1
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the requirements of a mutable iterator (24.2). [ Note: This requirement does not affect arguments that are declared as OutputIterator, OutputIterator1, or OutputIterator2, because output iterators must always be mutable. — end note ] Both in-place and copying versions are provided for certain algorithms.267 When such a version is provided for algorithm it is called algorithm_copy. Algorithms that take predicates end with the suffix _if (which follows the suffix _copy). The Predicate parameter is used whenever an algorithm expects a function object (20.8) that, when applied to the result of dereferencing the corresponding iterator, returns a value testable as true. In other words, if an algorithm takes Predicate pred as its argument and first as its iterator argument, it should work correctly in the construct pred(*first) contextually converted to bool (Clause 4). The function object pred shall not apply any non-constant function through the dereferenced iterator. The BinaryPredicate parameter is used whenever an algorithm expects a function object that when applied to the result of dereferencing two corresponding iterators or to dereferencing an iterator and type T when T is part of the signature returns a value testable as true. In other words, if an algorithm takes BinaryPredicate binary_pred as its argument and first1 and first2 as its iterator arguments, it should work correctly in the construct binary_pred(*first1, *first2) contextually converted to bool (Clause 4). BinaryPredicate always takes the first iterator’s value_type as its first argument, that is, in those cases when T value is part of the signature, it should work correctly in the construct binary_pred(*first1, value) contextually converted to bool (Clause 4). binary_pred shall not apply any non-constant function through the dereferenced iterators. [ Note: Unless otherwise specified, algorithms that take function objects as arguments are permitted to copy those function objects freely. Programmers for whom object identity is important should consider using a wrapper class that points to a noncopied implementation object such as reference_wrapper (20.8.3), or some equivalent solution. — end note ] When the description of an algorithm gives an expression such as *first == value for a condition, the expression shall evaluate to either true or false in boolean contexts. In the description of the algorithms operators + and - are used for some of the iterator categories for which they do not have to be defined. In these cases the semantics of a+n is the same as that of X tmp = a; advance(tmp, n); return tmp;
and that of b-a is the same as of return distance(a, b);
25.2
Non-modifying sequence operations
25.2.1
All of
[alg.nonmodifying] [alg.all_of]
template bool all_of(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, Predicate pred); 1
Returns: true if [first,last) is empty or if pred(*i) is true for every iterator i in the range [first,last), and false otherwise.
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Complexity: At most last - first applications of the predicate.
25.2.2
Any of
[alg.any_of]
267) The decision whether to include a copying version was usually based on complexity considerations. When the cost of doing the operation dominates the cost of copy, the copying version is not included. For example, sort_copy is not included because the cost of sorting is much more significant, and users might as well do copy followed by sort.
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template bool any_of(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, Predicate pred); 1
Returns: false if [first,last) is empty or if there is no iterator i in the range [first,last) such that pred(*i) is true, and true otherwise.
2
Complexity: At most last - first applications of the predicate.
25.2.3
None of
[alg.none_of]
template bool none_of(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, Predicate pred); 1
Returns: true if [first,last) is empty or if pred(*i) is false for every iterator i in the range [first,last), and false otherwise.
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Complexity: At most last - first applications of the predicate.
25.2.4
For each
[alg.foreach]
template Function for_each(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, Function f); 1
Requires: Function shall meet the requirements of MoveConstructible (Table 20). [ Note: Function need not meet the requirements of CopyConstructible (Table 21). — end note ]
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Effects: Applies f to the result of dereferencing every iterator in the range [first,last), starting from first and proceeding to last - 1. [ Note: If the type of first satisfies the requirements of a mutable iterator, f may apply nonconstant functions through the dereferenced iterator. — end note ]
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Returns: std::move(f).
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Complexity: Applies f exactly last - first times.
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Remarks: If f returns a result, the result is ignored.
25.2.5
Find
[alg.find]
template InputIterator find(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, const T& value); template InputIterator find_if(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, Predicate pred); template InputIterator find_if_not(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, Predicate pred); 1
Returns: The first iterator i in the range [first,last) for which the following corresponding conditions hold: *i == value, pred(*i) != false, pred(*i) == false. Returns last if no such iterator is found.
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Complexity: At most last - first applications of the corresponding predicate.
25.2.6
Find end
[alg.find.end]
template ForwardIterator1 find_end(ForwardIterator1 first1, ForwardIterator1 last1, ForwardIterator2 first2, ForwardIterator2 last2);
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template ForwardIterator1 find_end(ForwardIterator1 first1, ForwardIterator1 last1, ForwardIterator2 first2, ForwardIterator2 last2, BinaryPredicate pred); 1
Effects: Finds a subsequence of equal values in a sequence.
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Returns: The last iterator i in the range [first1,last1 - (last2 - first2)) such that for any nonnegative integer n < (last2 - first2), the following corresponding conditions hold: *(i + n) == *(first2 + n), pred(*(i + n), *(first2 + n)) != false. Returns last1 if [first2,last2) is empty or if no such iterator is found.
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Complexity: At most (last2 - first2) * (last1 - first1 - (last2 - first2) + 1) applications of the corresponding predicate.
25.2.7
Find first
[alg.find.first.of]
template InputIterator find_first_of(InputIterator first1, InputIterator last1, ForwardIterator first2, ForwardIterator last2); template InputIterator find_first_of(InputIterator first1, InputIterator last1, ForwardIterator first2, ForwardIterator last2, BinaryPredicate pred); 1
Effects: Finds an element that matches one of a set of values.
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Returns: The first iterator i in the range [first1,last1) such that for some iterator j in the range [first2,last2) the following conditions hold: *i == *j, pred(*i,*j) != false. Returns last1 if [first2,last2) is empty or if no such iterator is found.
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Complexity: At most (last1-first1) * (last2-first2) applications of the corresponding predicate.
25.2.8
Adjacent find
[alg.adjacent.find]
template ForwardIterator adjacent_find(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last); template ForwardIterator adjacent_find(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, BinaryPredicate pred); 1
Returns: The first iterator i such that both i and i + 1 are in the range [first,last) for which the following corresponding conditions hold: *i == *(i + 1), pred(*i, *(i + 1)) != false. Returns last if no such iterator is found.
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Complexity: For a nonempty range, exactly min((i - first) + 1, (last - first) - 1) applications of the corresponding predicate, where i is adjacent_find’s return value.
25.2.9
§ 25.2.9
Count
[alg.count]
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template typename iterator_traits::difference_type count(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, const T& value); template typename iterator_traits::difference_type count_if(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, Predicate pred); 1
Effects: Returns the number of iterators i in the range [first,last) for which the following corresponding conditions hold: *i == value, pred(*i) != false.
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Complexity: Exactly last - first applications of the corresponding predicate.
25.2.10
Mismatch
[mismatch]
template pair mismatch(InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1, InputIterator2 first2); template pair mismatch(InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1, InputIterator2 first2, BinaryPredicate pred); 1
Returns: A pair of iterators i and j such that j == first2 + (i - first1) and i is the first iterator in the range [first1,last1) for which the following corresponding conditions hold: !(*i == *(first2 + (i - first1))) pred(*i, *(first2 + (i - first1))) == false
Returns the pair last1 and first2 + (last1 - first1) if such an iterator i is not found. 2
Complexity: At most last1 - first1 applications of the corresponding predicate.
25.2.11
Equal
[alg.equal]
template bool equal(InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1, InputIterator2 first2); template bool equal(InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1, InputIterator2 first2, BinaryPredicate pred); 1
Returns: true if for every iterator i in the range [first1,last1) the following corresponding conditions hold: *i == *(first2 + (i - first1)), pred(*i, *(first2 + (i - first1))) != false. Otherwise, returns false.
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Complexity: At most last1 - first1 applications of the corresponding predicate.
25.2.12
Is permutation
template bool is_permutation(ForwardIterator1 first1, ForwardIterator1 last1, ForwardIterator2 first2, BinaryPredicate pred); 1
Requires:: ForwardIterator1 and ForwardIterator2 shall have the same value type. The comparison function shall be an equivalence relation.
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Returns: true if there exists a permutation of the elements in the range [first2,first2 + (last1 - first1)), beginning with ForwardIterator2 begin, such that equal(first1, last1, begin) returns true or equal(first1, last1, begin, pred) returns true; otherwise, returns false.
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Complexity: Exactly distance(first1, last1) applications of the corresponding predicate if equal( first1, last1, first2) would return true or equal(first1, last1, first2, pred) would return true; otherwise, at worst O(N 2 ), where N has the value distance(first1, last1).
25.2.13
Search
[alg.search]
template ForwardIterator1 search(ForwardIterator1 first1, ForwardIterator1 last1, ForwardIterator2 first2, ForwardIterator2 last2); template ForwardIterator1 search(ForwardIterator1 first1, ForwardIterator1 last1, ForwardIterator2 first2, ForwardIterator2 last2, BinaryPredicate pred); 1
Effects: Finds a subsequence of equal values in a sequence.
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Returns: The first iterator i in the range [first1,last1 - (last2-first2)) such that for any nonnegative integer n less than last2 - first2 the following corresponding conditions hold: *(i + n) == *(first2 + n), pred(*(i + n), *(first2 + n)) != false. Returns first1 if [first2,last2) is empty, otherwise returns last1 if no such iterator is found.
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Complexity: At most (last1 - first1) * (last2 - first2) applications of the corresponding predicate. template ForwardIterator search_n(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, Size count, const T& value); template ForwardIterator search_n(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, Size count, const T& value, BinaryPredicate pred);
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Requires: The type Size shall be convertible to integral type (4.7, 12.3).
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Effects: Finds a subsequence of equal values in a sequence.
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Returns: The first iterator i in the range [first,last-count) such that for any non-negative integer n less than count the following corresponding conditions hold: *(i + n) == value, pred(*(i + n),value) != false. Returns last if no such iterator is found.
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Mutating sequence operations
25.3.1
N3376
[alg.modifying.operations]
Copy
[alg.copy]
template OutputIterator copy(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, OutputIterator result); 1
Effects: Copies elements in the range [first,last) into the range [result,result + (last first)) starting from first and proceeding to last. For each non-negative integer n < (last first), performs *(result + n) = *(first + n).
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Returns: result + (last - first).
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Requires: result shall not be in the range [first,last).
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Complexity: Exactly last - first assignments. template OutputIterator copy_n(InputIterator first, Size n, OutputIterator result);
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Effects: For each non-negative integer i < n, performs *(result + i) = *(first + i).
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Returns: result + n.
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Complexity: Exactly n assignments. template OutputIterator copy_if(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, OutputIterator result, Predicate pred);
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Requires: The ranges [first,last) and [result,result + (last - first)) shall not overlap.
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Effects: Copies all of the elements referred to by the iterator i in the range [first,last) for which pred(*i) is true.
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Returns: The end of the resulting range.
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Complexity: Exactly last - first applications of the corresponding predicate.
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Remarks: Stable. template BidirectionalIterator2 copy_backward(BidirectionalIterator1 first, BidirectionalIterator1 last, BidirectionalIterator2 result);
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Effects: Copies elements in the range [first,last) into the range [result - (last-first),result ) starting from last - 1 and proceeding to first.268 For each positive integer n 0.
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Returns: The smallest value in the initializer_list.
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Remarks: Returns a copy of the leftmost argument when several arguments are equivalent to the smallest. template const T& max(const T& a, const T& b); template const T& max(const T& a, const T& b, Compare comp);
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Requires: Type T is LessThanComparable (Table 18).
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Returns: The larger value.
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Remarks: Returns the first argument when the arguments are equivalent. template T max(initializer_list t); template T max(initializer_list t, Compare comp);
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Requires: T is LessThanComparable and CopyConstructible and t.size() > 0.
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Returns: The largest value in the initializer_list.
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Remarks: Returns a copy of the leftmost argument when several arguments are equivalent to the largest.
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template pair minmax(const T& a, const T& b); template pair minmax(const T& a, const T& b, Compare comp); 13
Requires: Type T shall be LessThanComparable (Table 18).
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Returns: pair(b, a) if b is smaller than a, and pair(a, b) otherwise.
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Remarks: Returns pair(a, b) when the arguments are equivalent.
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Complexity: Exactly one comparison. template pair minmax(initializer_list t); template pair minmax(initializer_list t, Compare comp);
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Requires: T is LessThanComparable and CopyConstructible and t.size() > 0.
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Returns: pair(x, y), where x has the smallest and y has the largest value in the initializer list.
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Remarks: x is a copy of the leftmost argument when several arguments are equivalent to the smallest. y is a copy of the rightmost argument when several arguments are equivalent to the largest.
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Complexity: At most (3/2) * t.size() applications of the corresponding predicate. template ForwardIterator min_element(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last); template ForwardIterator min_element(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, Compare comp);
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Returns: The first iterator i in the range [first,last) such that for any iterator j in the range [first,last) the following corresponding conditions hold: !(*j < *i) or comp(*j, *i) == false. Returns last if first == last.
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Complexity: Exactly max((last - first) - 1, 0) applications of the corresponding comparisons. template ForwardIterator max_element(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last); template ForwardIterator max_element(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, Compare comp);
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Returns: The first iterator i in the range [first,last) such that for any iterator j in the range [first,last) the following corresponding conditions hold: !(*i < *j) or comp(*i, *j) == false. Returns last if first == last.
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Complexity: Exactly max((last - first) - 1, 0) applications of the corresponding comparisons.
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template pair minmax_element(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last); template pair minmax_element(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, Compare comp); 25
Returns: make_pair(first, first) if [first,last) is empty, otherwise make_pair(m, M), where m is the first iterator in [first,last) such that no iterator in the range refers to a smaller element, and where M is the last iterator in [first,last) such that no iterator in the range refers to a larger element.
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Complexity: At most max(b 23 (N − 1)c, 0) applications of the corresponding predicate, where N is distance(first, last).
25.4.8
Lexicographical comparison
[alg.lex.comparison]
template bool lexicographical_compare(InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1, InputIterator2 first2, InputIterator2 last2); template bool lexicographical_compare(InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1, InputIterator2 first2, InputIterator2 last2, Compare comp); 1
Returns: true if the sequence of elements defined by the range [first1,last1) is lexicographically less than the sequence of elements defined by the range [first2,last2) and false otherwise.
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Complexity: At most 2*min((last1 - first1), (last2 - first2)) applications of the corresponding comparison.
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Remarks: If two sequences have the same number of elements and their corresponding elements are equivalent, then neither sequence is lexicographically less than the other. If one sequence is a prefix of the other, then the shorter sequence is lexicographically less than the longer sequence. Otherwise, the lexicographical comparison of the sequences yields the same result as the comparison of the first corresponding pair of elements that are not equivalent. for ( ; first1 != last1 && first2 != last2 ; ++first1, ++first2) { if (*first1 < *first2) return true; if (*first2 < *first1) return false; } return first1 == last1 && first2 != last2;
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Remarks: An empty sequence is lexicographically less than any non-empty sequence, but not less than any empty sequence.
25.4.9
Permutation generators
[alg.permutation.generators]
template bool next_permutation(BidirectionalIterator first, BidirectionalIterator last); template bool next_permutation(BidirectionalIterator first, BidirectionalIterator last, Compare comp);
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Effects: Takes a sequence defined by the range [first,last) and transforms it into the next permutation. The next permutation is found by assuming that the set of all permutations is lexicographically sorted with respect to operator< or comp. If such a permutation exists, it returns true. Otherwise, it transforms the sequence into the smallest permutation, that is, the ascendingly sorted one, and returns false.
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Requires: BidirectionalIterator shall satisfy the requirements of ValueSwappable (17.6.3.2).
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Complexity: At most (last - first)/2 swaps. template bool prev_permutation(BidirectionalIterator first, BidirectionalIterator last); template bool prev_permutation(BidirectionalIterator first, BidirectionalIterator last, Compare comp);
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Effects: Takes a sequence defined by the range [first,last) and transforms it into the previous permutation. The previous permutation is found by assuming that the set of all permutations is lexicographically sorted with respect to operator< or comp.
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Returns: true if such a permutation exists. Otherwise, it transforms the sequence into the largest permutation, that is, the descendingly sorted one, and returns false.
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Requires: BidirectionalIterator shall satisfy the requirements of ValueSwappable (17.6.3.2).
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Complexity: At most (last - first)/2 swaps.
25.5 1
C library algorithms
[alg.c.library]
Table 113 describes some of the contents of the header . Table 113 — Header synopsis Type Type: Functions:
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Name(s) size_t bsearch qsort
The contents are the same as the Standard C library header with the following exceptions: The function signature: bsearch(const void *, const void *, size_t, size_t, int (*)(const void *, const void *));
is replaced by the two declarations: extern "C" void *bsearch(const void *key, const void *base, size_t nmemb, size_t size, int (*compar)(const void *, const void *)); extern "C++" void *bsearch(const void *key, const void *base, size_t nmemb, size_t size, int (*compar)(const void *, const void *)); 4
both of which have the same behavior as the original declaration. The function signature: § 25.5
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qsort(void *, size_t, size_t, int (*)(const void *, const void *));
is replaced by the two declarations: extern "C" void qsort(void* base, size_t nmemb, size_t size, int (*compar)(const void*, const void*)); extern "C++" void qsort(void* base, size_t nmemb, size_t size, int (*compar)(const void*, const void*));
both of which have the same behavior as the original declaration. The behavior is undefined unless the objects in the array pointed to by base are of trivial type. [ Note: Because the function argument compar() may throw an exception, bsearch() and qsort() are allowed to propagate the exception (17.6.5.12). — end note ] See also: ISO C 7.10.5.
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Numerics library
[numerics]
General
[numerics.general]
This Clause describes components that C++ programs may use to perform seminumerical operations. The following subclauses describe components for complex number types, random number generation, numeric (n-at-a-time) arrays, generalized numeric algorithms, and facilities included from the ISO C library, as summarized in Table 114. Table 114 — Numerics library summary
26.2 26.3 26.4 26.5 26.6 26.7 26.8
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Subclause Requirements Floating-Point Environment Complex Numbers Random number generation Numeric arrays Generalized numeric operations C library
Numeric type requirements
Header(s)
[numeric.requirements]
The complex and valarray components are parameterized by the type of information they contain and manipulate. A C++ program shall instantiate these components only with a type T that satisfies the following requirements:271 — T is not an abstract class (it has no pure virtual member functions); — T is not a reference type; — T is not cv-qualified; — If T is a class, it has a public default constructor; — If T is a class, it has a public copy constructor with the signature T::T(const T&) — If T is a class, it has a public destructor; — If T is a class, it has a public assignment operator whose signature is either T& T::operator=(const T&) or T& T::operator=(T) — If T is a class, its assignment operator, copy and default constructors, and destructor shall correspond to each other in the following sense: Initialization of raw storage using the default constructor, followed by assignment, is semantically equivalent to initialization of raw storage using the copy constructor. 271) In other words, value types. These include arithmetic types, pointers, the library class complex, and instantiations of valarray for value types.
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Destruction of an object, followed by initialization of its raw storage using the copy constructor, is semantically equivalent to assignment to the original object. [ Note: This rule states that there shall not be any subtle differences in the semantics of initialization versus assignment. This gives an implementation considerable flexibility in how arrays are initialized. [ Example: An implementation is allowed to initialize a valarray by allocating storage using the new operator (which implies a call to the default constructor for each element) and then assigning each element its value. Or the implementation can allocate raw storage and use the copy constructor to initialize each element. — end example ] If the distinction between initialization and assignment is important for a class, or if it fails to satisfy any of the other conditions listed above, the programmer should use vector (23.3.6) instead of valarray for that class; — end note ] — If T is a class, it does not overload unary operator&. 2 3
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If any operation on T throws an exception the effects are undefined. In addition, many member and related functions of valarray can be successfully instantiated and will exhibit well-defined behavior if and only if T satisfies additional requirements specified for each such member or related function. [ Example: It is valid to instantiate valarray, but operator>() will not be successfully instantiated for valarray operands, since complex does not have any ordering operators. — end example ]
26.3 26.3.1
The floating-point environment Header synopsis
[cfenv] [cfenv.syn]
namespace std { // types typedef object type fenv_t; typedef integer type fexcept_t; // functions int feclearexcept(int except); int fegetexceptflag(fexcept_t *pflag, int except); int feraiseexcept(int except); int fesetexceptflag(const fexcept_t *pflag, int except); int fetestexcept(int except); int fegetround(void); int fesetround(int mode); int int int int
fegetenv(fenv_t *penv); feholdexcept(fenv_t *penv); fesetenv(const fenv_t *penv); feupdateenv(const fenv_t *penv);
} 1
The header also defines the macros: FE_ALL_EXCEPT FE_DIVBYZERO FE_INEXACT FE_INVALID FE_OVERFLOW
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FE_UNDERFLOW FE_DOWNWARD FE_TONEAREST FE_TOWARDZERO FE_UPWARD FE_DFL_ENV 2 3
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The header defines all functions, types, and macros the same as Clause 7.6 of the C standard. The floating-point environment has thread storage duration (3.7.2). The initial state for a thread’s floatingpoint environment is the state of the floating-point environment of the thread that constructs the corresponding std::thread object (30.3.1) at the time it constructed the object. [ Note: That is, the child thread gets the floating-point state of the parent thread at the time of the child’s creation. — end note ] A separate floating-point environment shall be maintained for each thread. Each function accesses the environment corresponding to its calling thread.
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Complex numbers
[complex.numbers]
The header defines a class template, and numerous functions for representing and manipulating complex numbers. The effect of instantiating the template complex for any type other than float, double, or long double is unspecified. The specializations complex, complex, and complex are literal types (3.9). If the result of a function is not mathematically defined or not in the range of representable values for its type, the behavior is undefined. If z is an lvalue expression of type cv std::complex then: — the expression reinterpret_cast(z) shall be well-formed, — reinterpret_cast(z)[0] shall designate the real part of z, and — reinterpret_cast(z)[1] shall designate the imaginary part of z. Moreover, if a is an expression of type cv std::complex* and the expression a[i] is well-defined for an integer expression i, then: — reinterpret_cast(a)[2*i] shall designate the real part of a[i], and — reinterpret_cast(a)[2*i + 1] shall designate the imaginary part of a[i].
26.4.1
Header synopsis
[complex.syn]
namespace std { template class complex; template class complex; template class complex; template class complex; // 26.4.6, operators: template complex operator+(const complex&, const complex&); template complex operator+(const complex&, const T&); template complex operator+(const T&, const complex&); template complex operator-( const complex&, const complex&);
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template complex operator-(const complex&, const T&); template complex operator-(const T&, const complex&); template complex operator*( const complex&, const complex&); template complex operator*(const complex&, const T&); template complex operator*(const T&, const complex&); template complex operator/( const complex&, const complex&); template complex operator/(const complex&, const T&); template complex operator/(const T&, const complex&); template complex operator+(const complex&); template complex operator-(const complex&); template bool operator==( const complex&, const complex&); template bool operator==(const complex&, const T&); template bool operator==(const T&, const complex&); template bool operator!=(const complex&, const complex&); template bool operator!=(const complex&, const T&); template bool operator!=(const T&, const complex&); template basic_istream& operator>>(basic_istream&, complex&); template basic_ostream& operator(basic_istream& is, complex& x);
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Effects: Extracts a complex number x of the form: u, (u), or (u,v), where u is the real part and v is the imaginary part (27.7.2.2).
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Requires: The input values shall be convertible to T. If bad input is encountered, calls is.setstate(ios_base::failbit) (which may throw ios::failure (27.5.5.4)).
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Returns: is.
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Remarks: This extraction is performed as a series of simpler extractions. Therefore, the skipping of whitespace is specified to be the same for each of the simpler extractions. template basic_ostream& operator(
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ios_base& (*pf)(ios_base&)); basic_istream& basic_istream& basic_istream& basic_istream& basic_istream& basic_istream& basic_istream& basic_istream& basic_istream& basic_istream& basic_istream& basic_istream&
operator>>(bool& n); operator>>(short& n); operator>>(unsigned short& n); operator>>(int& n); operator>>(unsigned int& n); operator>>(long& n); operator>>(unsigned long& n); operator>>(long long& n); operator>>(unsigned long long& n); operator>>(float& f); operator>>(double& f); operator>>(long double& f);
basic_istream& operator>>(void*& p); basic_istream& operator>>( basic_streambuf* sb); // 27.7.2.3 Unformatted input: streamsize gcount() const; int_type get(); basic_istream& get(char_type& c); basic_istream& get(char_type* s, streamsize n); basic_istream& get(char_type* s, streamsize n, char_type delim); basic_istream& get(basic_streambuf& sb); basic_istream& get(basic_streambuf& sb, char_type delim); basic_istream& getline(char_type* s, streamsize n); basic_istream& getline(char_type* s, streamsize n, char_type delim); basic_istream& streamsize n = 1, int_type int_type basic_istream& streamsize
ignore( delim = traits::eof()); peek(); read (char_type* s, streamsize n); readsome(char_type* s, streamsize n);
basic_istream& putback(char_type c); basic_istream& unget(); int sync(); pos_type tellg(); basic_istream& seekg(pos_type); basic_istream& seekg(off_type, ios_base::seekdir); protected: basic_istream(const basic_istream& rhs) = delete; basic_istream(basic_istream&& rhs); // 27.7.2.1.2 Assign/swap: basic_istream& operator=(const basic_istream& rhs) = delete; basic_istream& operator=(basic_istream&& rhs);
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void swap(basic_istream& rhs); }; // 27.7.2.2.3 character extraction templates: template basic_istream& operator>>(basic_istream&, charT&); template basic_istream& operator>>(basic_istream&, unsigned char&); template basic_istream& operator>>(basic_istream&, signed char&); template basic_istream& operator>>(basic_istream&, charT*); template basic_istream& operator>>(basic_istream&, unsigned char*); template basic_istream& operator>>(basic_istream&, signed char*); } 1
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The class basic_istream defines a number of member function signatures that assist in reading and interpreting input from sequences controlled by a stream buffer. Two groups of member function signatures share common properties: the formatted input functions (or extractors) and the unformatted input functions. Both groups of input functions are described as if they obtain (or extract) input characters by calling rdbuf()->sbumpc() or rdbuf()->sgetc(). They may use other public members of istream. If rdbuf()->sbumpc() or rdbuf()->sgetc() returns traits::eof(), then the input function, except as explicitly noted otherwise, completes its actions and does setstate(eofbit), which may throw ios_base::failure (27.5.5.4), before returning. If one of these called functions throws an exception, then unless explicitly noted otherwise, the input function sets badbit in error state. If badbit is on in exceptions(), the input function rethrows the exception without completing its actions, otherwise it does not throw anything and proceeds as if the called function had returned a failure indication. 27.7.2.1.1 basic_istream constructors [istream.cons] explicit basic_istream(basic_streambuf* sb);
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Effects: Constructs an object of class basic_istream, assigning initial values to the base class by calling basic_ios::init(sb) (27.5.5.2).
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Postcondition: gcount() == 0 basic_istream(basic_istream&& rhs);
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Effects: Move constructs from the rvalue rhs. This is accomplished by default constructing the base class, copying the gcount() from rhs, calling basic_ios::move(rhs) to initialize the base class, and setting the gcount() for rhs to 0. virtual ~basic_istream();
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Effects: Destroys an object of class basic_istream.
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Class basic_istream assign and swap
[istream.assign]
basic_istream& operator=(basic_istream&& rhs); 1
Effects: swap(rhs);.
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Returns: *this. void swap(basic_istream& rhs);
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Effects: Calls basic_ios::swap(rhs). Exchanges the values returned by gcount() and rhs.gcount(). 27.7.2.1.3
Class basic_istream::sentry
[istream::sentry]
namespace std { template class basic_istream::sentry { typedef traits traits_type; bool ok_; // exposition only public: explicit sentry(basic_istream& is, bool noskipws = false); ~sentry(); explicit operator bool() const { return ok_; } sentry(const sentry&) = delete; sentry& operator=(const sentry&) = delete; }; } 1
The class sentry defines a class that is responsible for doing exception safe prefix and suffix operations. explicit sentry(basic_istream& is, bool noskipws = false);
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Effects: If is.good() is false, calls is.setstate(failbit). Otherwise, prepares for formatted or unformatted input. First, if is.tie() is not a null pointer, the function calls is.tie()->flush() to synchronize the output sequence with any associated external C stream. Except that this call can be suppressed if the put area of is.tie() is empty. Further an implementation is allowed to defer the call to flush until a call of is.rdbuf()->underflow() occurs. If no such call occurs before the sentry object is destroyed, the call to flush may be eliminated entirely.310 If noskipws is zero and is.flags() & ios_base::skipws is nonzero, the function extracts and discards each character as long as the next available input character c is a whitespace character. If is.rdbuf()->sbumpc() or is.rdbuf()->sgetc() returns traits::eof(), the function calls setstate(failbit | eofbit) (which may throw ios_base::failure).
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Remarks: The constructor explicit sentry(basic_istream& is, bool noskipws = false) uses the currently imbued locale in is, to determine whether the next input character is whitespace or not.
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To decide if the character c is a whitespace character, the constructor performs as if it executes the following code fragment: 310) This will be possible only in functions that are part of the library. The semantics of the constructor used in user code is as specified.
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const ctype& ctype = use_facet(is.getloc()); if (ctype.is(ctype.space,c)!=0) // c is a whitespace character. 5
If, after any preparation is completed, is.good() is true, ok_ != false otherwise, ok_ == false. During preparation, the constructor may call setstate(failbit) (which may throw ios_base:: failure (27.5.5.4))311 ~sentry();
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Effects: None. explicit operator bool() const;
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Formatted input functions Common requirements
[istream.formatted] [istream.formatted.reqmts]
Each formatted input function begins execution by constructing an object of class sentry with the noskipws (second) argument false. If the sentry object returns true, when converted to a value of type bool, the function endeavors to obtain the requested input. If an exception is thrown during input then ios::badbit is turned on312 in *this’s error state. If (exceptions()&badbit) != 0 then the exception is rethrown. In any case, the formatted input function destroys the sentry object. If no exception has been thrown, it returns *this. 27.7.2.2.2 Arithmetic extractors [istream.formatted.arithmetic] operator>>(unsigned short& val); operator>>(unsigned int& val); operator>>(long& val); operator>>(unsigned long& val); operator>>(long long& val); operator>>(unsigned long long& val); operator>>(float& val); operator>>(double& val); operator>>(long double& val); operator>>(bool& val); operator>>(void*& val);
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As in the case of the inserters, these extractors depend on the locale’s num_get (22.4.2.1) object to perform parsing the input stream data. These extractors behave as formatted input functions (as described in 27.7.2.2.1). After a sentry object is constructed, the conversion occurs as if performed by the following code fragment: typedef num_get< charT,istreambuf_iterator > numget; iostate err = iostate::goodbit; use_facet< numget >(loc).get(*this, 0, *this, err, val); setstate(err);
In the above fragment, loc stands for the private member of the basic_ios class. [ Note: The first argument provides an object of the istreambuf_iterator class which is an iterator pointed to an input stream. It bypasses istreams and uses streambufs directly. — end note ] Class locale relies on this type as its interface to istream, so that it does not need to depend directly on istream. 311) The sentry constructor and destructor can also perform additional implementation-dependent operations. 312) This is done without causing an ios::failure to be thrown.
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operator>>(short& val); 2
The conversion occurs as if performed by the following code fragment (using the same notation as for the preceding code fragment): typedef num_get numget; iostate err = ios_base::goodbit; long lval; use_facet(loc).get(*this, 0, *this, err, lval); if (lval < numeric_limits::min()) { err |= ios_base::failbit; val = numeric_limits::min(); } else if (numeric_limits::max() < lval) { err |= ios_base::failbit; val = numeric_limits::max(); } else val = static_cast(lval); setstate(err);
operator>>(int& val); 3
The conversion occurs as if performed by the following code fragment (using the same notation as for the preceding code fragment): typedef num_get numget; iostate err = ios_base::goodbit; long lval; use_facet(loc).get(*this, 0, *this, err, lval); if (lval < numeric_limits::min()) { err |= ios_base::failbit; val = numeric_limits::min(); } else if (numeric_limits::max() < lval) { err |= ios_base::failbit; val = numeric_limits::max(); } else val = static_cast(lval); setstate(err);
27.7.2.2.3
basic_istream::operator>>
[istream::extractors]
basic_istream& operator>> (basic_istream& (*pf)(basic_istream&)) 1
Effects: None. This extractor does not behave as a formatted input function (as described in 27.7.2.2.1.)
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Returns: pf(*this).313 basic_istream& operator>> (basic_ios& (*pf)(basic_ios&));
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Effects: Calls pf(*this). This extractor does not behave as a formatted input function (as described in 27.7.2.2.1).
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Returns: *this. 313) See, for example, the function signature ws(basic_istream&) (27.7.2.4).
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basic_istream& operator>> (ios_base& (*pf)(ios_base&)); 5
Effects: Calls pf(*this).314 This extractor does not behave as a formatted input function (as described in 27.7.2.2.1).
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Returns: *this. template basic_istream& operator>>(basic_istream& in, charT* s); template basic_istream& operator>>(basic_istream& in, unsigned char* s); template basic_istream& operator>>(basic_istream& in, signed char* s);
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Effects: Behaves like a formatted input member (as described in 27.7.2.2.1) of in. After a sentry object is constructed, operator>> extracts characters and stores them into successive locations of an array whose first element is designated by s. If width() is greater than zero, n is width(). Otherwise n is the number of elements of the largest array of char_type that can store a terminating charT(). n is the maximum number of characters stored.
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Characters are extracted and stored until any of the following occurs: — n-1 characters are stored; — end of file occurs on the input sequence; — ct.is(ct.space,c) is true for the next available input character c, where ct is use_facet >(in.getloc()).
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operator>> then stores a null byte (charT()) in the next position, which may be the first position if no characters were extracted. operator>> then calls width(0).
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If the function extracted no characters, it calls setstate(failbit), which may throw ios_base:: failure (27.5.5.4).
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Returns: in. template basic_istream& operator>>(basic_istream& in, charT& c); template basic_istream& operator>>(basic_istream& in, unsigned char& c); template basic_istream& operator>>(basic_istream& in, signed char& c);
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Effects: Behaves like a formatted input member (as described in 27.7.2.2.1) of in. After a sentry object is constructed a character is extracted from in, if one is available, and stored in c. Otherwise, the function calls in.setstate(failbit).
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Returns: in. 314) See, for example, the function signature dec(ios_base&) (27.5.6.3).
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basic_istream& operator>> (basic_streambuf* sb); 14
Effects: Behaves as an unformatted input function (as described in 27.7.2.3, paragraph 1). If sb is null, calls setstate(failbit), which may throw ios_base::failure (27.5.5.4). After a sentry object is constructed, extracts characters from *this and inserts them in the output sequence controlled by sb. Characters are extracted and inserted until any of the following occurs: — end-of-file occurs on the input sequence; — inserting in the output sequence fails (in which case the character to be inserted is not extracted); — an exception occurs (in which case the exception is caught).
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If the function inserts no characters, it calls setstate(failbit), which may throw ios_base:: failure (27.5.5.4). If it inserted no characters because it caught an exception thrown while extracting characters from *this and failbit is on in exceptions() (27.5.5.4), then the caught exception is rethrown.
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Unformatted input functions
[istream.unformatted]
Each unformatted input function begins execution by constructing an object of class sentry with the default argument noskipws (second) argument true. If the sentry object returns true, when converted to a value of type bool, the function endeavors to obtain the requested input. Otherwise, if the sentry constructor exits by throwing an exception or if the sentry object returns false, when converted to a value of type bool, the function returns without attempting to obtain any input. In either case the number of extracted characters is set to 0; unformatted input functions taking a character array of non-zero size as an argument shall also store a null character (using charT()) in the first location of the array. If an exception is thrown during input then ios::badbit is turned on315 in *this’s error state. (Exceptions thrown from basic_ios::clear() are not caught or rethrown.) If (exceptions()&badbit) != 0 then the exception is rethrown. It also counts the number of characters extracted. If no exception has been thrown it ends by storing the count in a member object and returning the value specified. In any event the sentry object is destroyed before leaving the unformatted input function. streamsize gcount() const;
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Effects: None. This member function does not behave as an unformatted input function (as described in 27.7.2.3, paragraph 1).
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Returns: The number of characters extracted by the last unformatted input member function called for the object. int_type get();
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Effects: Behaves as an unformatted input function (as described in 27.7.2.3, paragraph 1). After constructing a sentry object, extracts a character c, if one is available. Otherwise, the function calls setstate(failbit), which may throw ios_base::failure (27.5.5.4),
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Returns: c if available, otherwise traits::eof(). basic_istream& get(char_type& c); 315) This is done without causing an ios::failure to be thrown.
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Effects: Behaves as an unformatted input function (as described in 27.7.2.3, paragraph 1). After constructing a sentry object, extracts a character, if one is available, and assigns it to c.316 Otherwise, the function calls setstate(failbit) (which may throw ios_base::failure (27.5.5.4)).
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Returns: *this. basic_istream& get(char_type* s, streamsize n, char_type delim );
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Effects: Behaves as an unformatted input function (as described in 27.7.2.3, paragraph 1). After constructing a sentry object, extracts characters and stores them into successive locations of an array whose first element is designated by s.317 Characters are extracted and stored until any of the following occurs: — n is less than one or n - 1 characters are stored; — end-of-file occurs on the input sequence (in which case the function calls setstate(eofbit)); — traits::eq(c, delim) for the next available input character c (in which case c is not extracted).
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If the function stores no characters, it calls setstate(failbit) (which may throw ios_base:: failure (27.5.5.4)). In any case, if n is greater than zero it then stores a null character into the next successive location of the array. Returns: *this. basic_istream& get(char_type* s, streamsize n)
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Effects: Calls get(s,n,widen(’\n’))
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Returns: Value returned by the call. basic_istream& get(basic_streambuf& sb, char_type delim );
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Effects: Behaves as an unformatted input function (as described in 27.7.2.3, paragraph 1). After constructing a sentry object, extracts characters and inserts them in the output sequence controlled by sb. Characters are extracted and inserted until any of the following occurs: — end-of-file occurs on the input sequence; — inserting in the output sequence fails (in which case the character to be inserted is not extracted); — traits::eq(c, delim) for the next available input character c (in which case c is not extracted); — an exception occurs (in which case, the exception is caught but not rethrown).
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If the function inserts no characters, it calls setstate(failbit), which may throw ios_base:: failure (27.5.5.4).
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Returns: *this. basic_istream& get(basic_streambuf& sb); 316) Note that this function is not overloaded on types signed char and unsigned char. 317) Note that this function is not overloaded on types signed char and unsigned char.
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Effects: Calls get(sb, widen(’\n’))
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basic_istream& getline(char_type* s, streamsize n, char_type delim); 18
Effects: Behaves as an unformatted input function (as described in 27.7.2.3, paragraph 1). After constructing a sentry object, extracts characters and stores them into successive locations of an array whose first element is designated by s.318 Characters are extracted and stored until one of the following occurs: 1. end-of-file occurs on the input sequence (in which case the function calls setstate(eofbit)); 2. traits::eq(c, delim) for the next available input character c (in which case the input character is extracted but not stored);319 3. n is less than one or n - 1 characters are stored (in which case the function calls setstate( failbit)).
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These conditions are tested in the order shown.320
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If the function extracts no characters, it calls setstate(failbit) (which may throw ios_base:: failure (27.5.5.4)).321
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In any case, if n is greater than zero, it then stores a null character (using charT()) into the next successive location of the array.
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Returns: *this.
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[ Example: #include int main() { using namespace std; const int line_buffer_size = 100; char buffer[line_buffer_size]; int line_number = 0; while (cin.getline(buffer, line_buffer_size, ’\n’) || cin.gcount()) { int count = cin.gcount(); if (cin.eof()) cout pubsync() and, if that function returns -1 calls setstate(badbit) (which may throw ios_base::failure (27.5.5.4), and returns -1. Otherwise, returns zero. pos_type tellg();
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Effects: Behaves as an unformatted input function (as described in 27.7.2.3, paragraph 1), except that it does not count the number of characters extracted and does not affect the value returned by subsequent calls to gcount().
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Returns: After constructing a sentry object, if fail() != false, returns pos_type(-1) to indicate failure. Otherwise, returns rdbuf()->pubseekoff(0, cur, in). basic_istream& seekg(pos_type pos);
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Effects: Behaves as an unformatted input function (as described in 27.7.2.3, paragraph 1), except that the function first clears eofbit, it does not count the number of characters extracted, and it does not affect the value returned by subsequent calls to gcount(). After constructing a sentry object, if fail() != true, executes rdbuf()->pubseekpos(pos, ios_base::in). In case of failure, the function calls setstate(failbit) (which may throw ios_base::failure).
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Effects: Behaves as an unformatted input function (as described in 27.7.2.3, paragraph 1), except that it does not count the number of characters extracted and does not affect the value returned by subsequent calls to gcount(). After constructing a sentry object, if fail() != true, executes rdbuf()->pubseekoff(off, dir, ios_base::in). In case of failure, the function calls setstate( failbit) (which may throw ios_base::failure).
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Standard basic_istream manipulators
[istream.manip]
namespace std { template basic_istream& ws(basic_istream& is); } 1
Effects: Behaves as an unformatted input function (as described in 27.7.2.3, paragraph 1), except that it does not count the number of characters extracted and does not affect the value returned by subsequent calls to is.gcount(). After constructing a sentry object extracts characters as long as the next available character c is whitespace or until there are no more characters in the sequence. Whitespace characters are distinguished with the same criterion as used by sentry::sentry (27.7.2.1.3). If ws stops extracting characters because there are no more available it sets eofbit, but not failbit.
2
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Class template basic_iostream
[iostreamclass]
namespace std { template class basic_iostream : public basic_istream, public basic_ostream { public: // types: typedef charT char_type; typedef typename traits::int_type int_type; typedef typename traits::pos_type pos_type; typedef typename traits::off_type off_type; typedef traits traits_type; // constructor/destructor explicit basic_iostream(basic_streambuf* sb); virtual ~basic_iostream(); protected: basic_iostream(const basic_iostream& rhs) = delete; basic_iostream(basic_iostream&& rhs); // assign/swap basic_iostream& operator=(const basic_iostream& rhs) = delete; basic_iostream& operator=(basic_iostream&& rhs); void swap(basic_iostream& rhs); }; }
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The class basic_iostream inherits a number of functions that allow reading input and writing output to sequences controlled by a stream buffer. 27.7.2.5.1 basic_iostream constructors [iostream.cons] explicit basic_iostream(basic_streambuf* sb);
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Effects: Constructs an object of class basic_iostream, assigning initial values to the base classes by calling basic_istream(sb) (27.7.2.1) and basic_ostream(sb) (27.7.3.1)
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Postcondition: rdbuf()==sb and gcount()==0. basic_iostream(basic_iostream&& rhs);
3
Effects: Move constructs from the rvalue rhs by constructing the basic_istream base class with move(rhs). 27.7.2.5.2
basic_iostream destructor
[iostream.dest]
virtual ~basic_iostream(); 1
Effects: Destroys an object of class basic_iostream.
2
Remarks: Does not perform any operations on rdbuf(). 27.7.2.5.3
basic_iostream assign and swap
[iostream.assign]
basic_iostream& operator=(basic_iostream&& rhs); 1
Effects: swap(rhs). void swap(basic_iostream& rhs);
2
Effects: Calls basic_istream::swap(rhs). 27.7.2.6
Rvalue stream extraction
[istream.rvalue]
template basic_istream& operator>>(basic_istream&& is, T& x); 1
Effects: is » x
2
Returns: is
27.7.3 1
Output streams
[output.streams]
The header defines a type and several function signatures that control output to a stream buffer along with a function template that inserts into stream rvalues. 27.7.3.1 Class template basic_ostream [ostream] namespace std { template class basic_ostream : virtual public basic_ios { public: // types (inherited from basic_ios (27.5.5)): typedef charT char_type; typedef typename traits::int_type int_type; typedef typename traits::pos_type pos_type;
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typedef typename traits::off_type off_type; typedef traits traits_type; // 27.7.3.2 Constructor/destructor: explicit basic_ostream(basic_streambuf* sb); virtual ~basic_ostream(); // 27.7.3.4 Prefix/suffix: class sentry; // 27.7.3.6 Formatted output: basic_ostream& operator templateopt id-expression postfix-expression . pseudo-destructor-name postfix-expression -> pseudo-destructor-name postfix-expression ++ postfix-expression -dynamic_cast < type-id > ( expression ) static_cast < type-id > ( expression ) reinterpret_cast < type-id > ( expression ) const_cast < type-id > ( expression ) typeid ( expression ) typeid ( type-id ) expression-list: initializer-list pseudo-destructor-name: nested-name-specifieropt type-name :: ~ type-name nested-name-specifier template simple-template-id :: ~ type-name nested-name-specifieropt ~ type-name ~ decltype-specifier unary-expression: postfix-expression ++ cast-expression -- cast-expression unary-operator cast-expression sizeof unary-expression sizeof ( type-id ) sizeof ... ( identifier ) alignof ( type-id ) noexcept-expression new-expression delete-expression unary-operator: one of * & + - ! ~ new-expression: ::opt new new-placementopt new-type-id new-initializeropt ::opt new new-placementopt ( type-id ) new-initializeropt new-placement: ( expression-list ) new-type-id: type-specifier-seq new-declaratoropt new-declarator: ptr-operator new-declaratoropt noptr-new-declarator
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noptr-new-declarator: [ expression ] attribute-specifier-seqopt noptr-new-declarator [ constant-expression ] attribute-specifier-seqopt new-initializer: ( expression-listopt ) braced-init-list delete-expression: ::opt delete cast-expression ::opt delete [ ] cast-expression noexcept-expression: noexcept ( expression ) cast-expression: unary-expression ( type-id ) cast-expression pm-expression: cast-expression pm-expression .* cast-expression pm-expression ->* cast-expression multiplicative-expression: pm-expression multiplicative-expression * pm-expression multiplicative-expression / pm-expression multiplicative-expression % pm-expression additive-expression: multiplicative-expression additive-expression + multiplicative-expression additive-expression - multiplicative-expression shift-expression: additive-expression shift-expression > additive-expression relational-expression: shift-expression relational-expression < shift-expression relational-expression > shift-expression relational-expression = shift-expression equality-expression: relational-expression equality-expression == relational-expression equality-expression != relational-expression and-expression: equality-expression and-expression & equality-expression exclusive-or-expression: and-expression exclusive-or-expression ˆ and-expression inclusive-or-expression: exclusive-or-expression inclusive-or-expression | exclusive-or-expression logical-and-expression: inclusive-or-expression logical-and-expression && inclusive-or-expression
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logical-or-expression: logical-and-expression logical-or-expression || logical-and-expression conditional-expression: logical-or-expression logical-or-expression ? expression : assignment-expression assignment-expression: conditional-expression logical-or-expression assignment-operator initializer-clause throw-expression assignment-operator: one of = *= /= %= += -= >>= > ++
ˆ -= >>= --
& *=
literal-operator-id: operator "" identifier
A.12
Templates
[gram.temp]
template-declaration: template < template-parameter-list > declaration
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template-parameter-list: template-parameter template-parameter-list , template-parameter template-parameter: type-parameter parameter-declaration type-parameter: class ...opt identifieropt class identifieropt = type-id typename ...opt identifieropt typename identifieropt = type-id template < template-parameter-list > class ...opt identifieropt template < template-parameter-list > class identifieropt = id-expression simple-template-id: template-name < template-argument-listopt > template-id: simple-template-id operator-function-id < template-argument-listopt > literal-operator-id < template-argument-listopt > template-name: identifier template-argument-list: template-argument ...opt template-argument-list , template-argument ...opt template-argument: constant-expression type-id id-expression typename-specifier: typename nested-name-specifier identifier typename nested-name-specifier templateopt simple-template-id explicit-instantiation: externopt template declaration explicit-specialization: template < > declaration
A.13
Exception handling
[gram.except]
try-block: try compound-statement handler-seq function-try-block: try ctor-initializeropt compound-statement handler-seq handler-seq: handler handler-seqopt handler: catch ( exception-declaration ) compound-statement exception-declaration: attribute-specifier-seqopt type-specifier-seq declarator attribute-specifier-seqopt type-specifier-seq abstract-declaratoropt ... throw-expression: throw assignment-expressionopt
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exception-specification: dynamic-exception-specification noexcept-specification dynamic-exception-specification: throw ( type-id-listopt ) type-id-list: type-id ...opt type-id-list , type-id ...opt noexcept-specification: noexcept ( constant-expression ) noexcept
A.14
Preprocessing directives
[gram.cpp]
preprocessing-file: groupopt group: group-part group group-part group-part: if-section control-line text-line # non-directive if-section: if-group elif-groupsopt else-groupopt endif-line if-group: # if constant-expression new-line groupopt # ifdef identifier new-line groupopt # ifndef identifier new-line groupopt elif-groups: elif-group elif-groups elif-group elif-group: # elif constant-expression new-line groupopt else-group: # else new-line groupopt endif-line: # endif new-line control-line: # include pp-tokens new-line # define identifier replacement-list new-line # define identifier lparen identifier-listopt ) replacement-list new-line # define identifier lparen ... ) replacement-list new-line # define identifier lparen identifier-list, ... ) replacement-list new-line # undef identifier new-line # line pp-tokens new-line # error pp-tokensopt new-line # pragma pp-tokensopt new-line # new-line text-line: pp-tokensopt new-line non-directive: pp-tokens new-line
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lparen: a ( character not immediately preceded by white-space identifier-list: identifier identifier-list , identifier replacement-list: pp-tokensopt pp-tokens: preprocessing-token pp-tokens preprocessing-token new-line: the new-line character
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[implimits]
Because computers are finite, C++ implementations are inevitably limited in the size of the programs they can successfully process. Every implementation shall document those limitations where known. This documentation may cite fixed limits where they exist, say how to compute variable limits as a function of available resources, or say that fixed limits do not exist or are unknown. The limits may constrain quantities that include those described below or others. The bracketed number following each quantity is recommended as the minimum for that quantity. However, these quantities are only guidelines and do not determine compliance. — Nesting levels of compound statements, iteration control structures, and selection control structures [256]. — Nesting levels of conditional inclusion [256]. — Pointer, array, and function declarators (in any combination) modifying a class, arithmetic, or incomplete type in a declaration [256]. — Nesting levels of parenthesized expressions within a full-expression [256]. — Number of characters in an internal identifier or macro name [1 024]. — Number of characters in an external identifier [1 024]. — External identifiers in one translation unit [65 536]. — Identifiers with block scope declared in one block [1 024]. — Macro identifiers simultaneously defined in one translation unit [65 536]. — Parameters in one function definition [256]. — Arguments in one function call [256]. — Parameters in one macro definition [256]. — Arguments in one macro invocation [256]. — Characters in one logical source line [65 536]. — Characters in a string literal (after concatenation) [65 536]. — Size of an object [262 144]. — Nesting levels for #include files [256]. — Case labels for a switch statement (excluding those for any nested switch statements) [16 384]. — Data members in a single class [16 384]. — Enumeration constants in a single enumeration [4 096]. — Levels of nested class definitions in a single member-specification [256]. Implementation quantities
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— Functions registered by atexit() [32]. — Functions registered by at_quick_exit() [32]. — Direct and indirect base classes [16 384]. — Direct base classes for a single class [1 024]. — Members declared in a single class [4 096]. — Final overriding virtual functions in a class, accessible or not [16 384]. — Direct and indirect virtual bases of a class [1 024]. — Static members of a class [1 024]. — Friend declarations in a class [4 096]. — Access control declarations in a class [4 096]. — Member initializers in a constructor definition [6 144]. — Scope qualifications of one identifier [256]. — Nested external specifications [1 024]. — Recursive constexpr function invocations [512]. — Template arguments in a template declaration [1 024]. — Recursively nested template instantiations, including substitution during template argument deduction (14.8.2) [1 024]. — Handlers per try block [256]. — Throw specifications on a single function declaration [256]. — Number of placeholders (20.8.9.1.4) [10].
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Annex C (informative) Compatibility C.1 1
C++ and ISO C
[diff.iso]
This subclause lists the differences between
C.1.1
[diff]
C++
and ISO C, by the chapters of this document.
Clause 2: lexical conventions
[diff.lex]
2.12 Change: New Keywords New keywords are added to C++; see 2.12. Rationale: These keywords were added in order to implement the new semantics of C++. Effect on original feature: Change to semantics of well-defined feature. Any ISO C programs that used any of these keywords as identifiers are not valid C++ programs. Difficulty of converting: Syntactic transformation. Converting one specific program is easy. Converting a large collection of related programs takes more work. How widely used: Common. 2.14.3 Change: Type of character literal is changed from int to char Rationale: This is needed for improved overloaded function argument type matching. For example: int function( int i ); int function( char c ); function( ’x’ );
It is preferable that this call match the second version of function rather than the first. Effect on original feature: Change to semantics of well-defined feature. ISO C programs which depend on sizeof(’x’) == sizeof(int)
will not work the same as C++ programs. Difficulty of converting: Simple. How widely used: Programs which depend upon sizeof(’x’) are probably rare. Subclause 2.14.5: Change: String literals made const The type of a string literal is changed from “array of char” to “array of const char.” The type of a char16_t string literal is changed from “array of some-integer-type” to “array of const char16_t.” The type of a char32_t string literal is changed from “array of some-integer-type” to “array of const char32_t.” The type of a wide string literal is changed from “array of wchar_t” to “array of const wchar_t.” Rationale: This avoids calling an inappropriate overloaded function, which might expect to be able to modify its argument. Effect on original feature: Change to semantics of well-defined feature. Difficulty of converting: Syntactic transformation. The fix is to add a cast: char* p = "abc"; void f(char*) { char* p = (char*)"abc"; f(p);
§ C.1.1
// valid in C, invalid in C++ // OK: cast added
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}
How widely used: Programs that have a legitimate reason to treat string literals as pointers to potentially modifiable memory are probably rare.
C.1.2
Clause 3: basic concepts
[diff.basic]
3.1 Change: C++ does not have “tentative definitions” as in C E.g., at file scope, int i; int i;
is valid in C, invalid in C++. This makes it impossible to define mutually referential file-local static objects, if initializers are restricted to the syntactic forms of C. For example, struct X { int i; struct X *next; }; static struct X a; static struct X b = { 0, &a }; static struct X a = { 1, &b };
Rationale: This avoids having different initialization rules for fundamental types and user-defined types. Effect on original feature: Deletion of semantically well-defined feature. Difficulty of converting: Semantic transformation. Rationale: In C++, the initializer for one of a set of mutually-referential file-local static objects must invoke a function call to achieve the initialization. How widely used: Seldom. 3.3 Change: A struct is a scope in C++, not in C Rationale: Class scope is crucial to C++, and a struct is a class. Effect on original feature: Change to semantics of well-defined feature. Difficulty of converting: Semantic transformation. How widely used: C programs use struct extremely frequently, but the change is only noticeable when struct, enumeration, or enumerator names are referred to outside the struct. The latter is probably rare. 3.5 [also 7.1.6] Change: A name of file scope that is explicitly declared const, and not explicitly declared extern, has internal linkage, while in C it would have external linkage Rationale: Because const objects can be used as compile-time values in C++, this feature urges programmers to provide explicit initializer values for each const. This feature allows the user to put constobjects in header files that are included in many compilation units. Effect on original feature: Change to semantics of well-defined feature. Difficulty of converting: Semantic transformation How widely used: Seldom 3.6 Change: Main cannot be called recursively and cannot have its address taken Rationale: The main function may require special actions. Effect on original feature: Deletion of semantically well-defined feature Difficulty of converting: Trivial: create an intermediary function such as mymain(argc, argv). How widely used: Seldom 3.9 Change: C allows “compatible types” in several places, C++ does not For example, otherwise-identical § C.1.2
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struct types with different tag names are “compatible” in C but are distinctly different types in C++. Rationale: Stricter type checking is essential for C++. Effect on original feature: Deletion of semantically well-defined feature. Difficulty of converting: Semantic transformation. The “typesafe linkage” mechanism will find many, but not all, of such problems. Those problems not found by typesafe linkage will continue to function properly, according to the “layout compatibility rules” of this International Standard. How widely used: Common.
C.1.3
Clause 4: standard conversions
[diff.conv]
4.10 Change: Converting void* to a pointer-to-object type requires casting char a[10]; void *b=a; void foo() { char *c=b; }
ISO C will accept this usage of pointer to void being assigned to a pointer to object type. C++ will not. Rationale: C++ tries harder than C to enforce compile-time type safety. Effect on original feature: Deletion of semantically well-defined feature. Difficulty of converting: Could be automated. Violations will be diagnosed by the C++ translator. The fix is to add a cast. For example: char *c = (char *) b;
How widely used: This is fairly widely used but it is good programming practice to add the cast when assigning pointer-to-void to pointer-to-object. Some ISO C translators will give a warning if the cast is not used.
C.1.4
Clause 5: expressions
[diff.expr]
5.2.2 Change: Implicit declaration of functions is not allowed Rationale: The type-safe nature of C++. Effect on original feature: Deletion of semantically well-defined feature. Note: the original feature was labeled as “obsolescent” in ISO C. Difficulty of converting: Syntactic transformation. Facilities for producing explicit function declarations are fairly widespread commercially. How widely used: Common. 5.3.3, 5.4 Change: Types must be declared in declarations, not in expressions In C, a sizeof expression or cast expression may create a new type. For example, p = (void*)(struct x {int i;} *)0;
declares a new type, struct x . Rationale: This prohibition helps to clarify the location of declarations in the source code. Effect on original feature: Deletion of a semantically well-defined feature. Difficulty of converting: Syntactic transformation. How widely used: Seldom. 5.16, 5.17, 5.18 Change: The result of a conditional expression, an assignment expression, or a comma expression may be an lvalue Rationale: C++ is an object-oriented language, placing relatively more emphasis on lvalues. For example, § C.1.4
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functions may return lvalues. Effect on original feature: Change to semantics of well-defined feature. Some C expressions that implicitly rely on lvalue-to-rvalue conversions will yield different results. For example, char arr[100]; sizeof(0, arr)
yields 100 in C++ and sizeof(char*) in C. Difficulty of converting: Programs must add explicit casts to the appropriate rvalue. How widely used: Rare.
C.1.5
Clause 6: statements
[diff.stat]
6.4.2, 6.6.4 Change: It is now invalid to jump past a declaration with explicit or implicit initializer (except across entire block not entered) Rationale: Constructors used in initializers may allocate resources which need to be de-allocated upon leaving the block. Allowing jump past initializers would require complicated run-time determination of allocation. Furthermore, any use of the uninitialized object could be a disaster. With this simple compiletime rule, C++ assures that if an initialized variable is in scope, then it has assuredly been initialized. Effect on original feature: Deletion of semantically well-defined feature. Difficulty of converting: Semantic transformation. How widely used: Seldom. 6.6.3 Change: It is now invalid to return (explicitly or implicitly) from a function which is declared to return a value without actually returning a value Rationale: The caller and callee may assume fairly elaborate return-value mechanisms for the return of class objects. If some flow paths execute a return without specifying any value, the implementation must embody many more complications. Besides, promising to return a value of a given type, and then not returning such a value, has always been recognized to be a questionable practice, tolerated only because very-old C had no distinction between void functions and int functions. Effect on original feature: Deletion of semantically well-defined feature. Difficulty of converting: Semantic transformation. Add an appropriate return value to the source code, such as zero. How widely used: Seldom. For several years, many existing C implementations have produced warnings in this case.
C.1.6
Clause 7: declarations
[diff.dcl]
7.1.1 Change: In C++, the static or extern specifiers can only be applied to names of objects or functions Using these specifiers with type declarations is illegal in C++. In C, these specifiers are ignored when used on type declarations. Example: static struct S { int i; };
// valid C, invalid in C++
Rationale: Storage class specifiers don’t have any meaning when associated with a type. In C++, class members can be declared with the static storage class specifier. Allowing storage class specifiers on type declarations could render the code confusing for users. Effect on original feature: Deletion of semantically well-defined feature. Difficulty of converting: Syntactic transformation. How widely used: Seldom. § C.1.6
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7.1.3 Change: A C++ typedef name must be different from any class type name declared in the same scope (except if the typedef is a synonym of the class name with the same name). In C, a typedef name and a struct tag name declared in the same scope can have the same name (because they have different name spaces) Example: typedef struct name1 { /∗...∗/ } name1; // valid C and C++ struct name { /∗...∗/ }; typedef int name; // valid C, invalid C++
Rationale: For ease of use, C++ doesn’t require that a type name be prefixed with the keywords class, struct or union when used in object declarations or type casts. Example: class name { /∗...∗/ }; name i;
// i has type class name
Effect on original feature: Deletion of semantically well-defined feature. Difficulty of converting: Semantic transformation. One of the 2 types has to be renamed. How widely used: Seldom. 7.1.6 [see also 3.5] Change: const objects must be initialized in C++ but can be left uninitialized in C Rationale: A const object cannot be assigned to so it must be initialized to hold a useful value. Effect on original feature: Deletion of semantically well-defined feature. Difficulty of converting: Semantic transformation. How widely used: Seldom. 7.1.6 Change: Banning implicit int In C++ a decl-specifier-seq must contain a type-specifier, unless it is followed by a declarator for a constructor, a destructor, or a conversion function. In the following example, the left-hand column presents valid C; the right-hand column presents equivalent C++: void f(const parm); const n = 3; main() /∗ ... ∗/
void f(const int parm); const int n = 3; int main() /∗ ... ∗/
Rationale: In C++, implicit int creates several opportunities for ambiguity between expressions involving function-like casts and declarations. Explicit declaration is increasingly considered to be proper style. Liaison with WG14 (C) indicated support for (at least) deprecating implicit int in the next revision of C. Effect on original feature: Deletion of semantically well-defined feature. Difficulty of converting: Syntactic transformation. Could be automated. How widely used: Common. 7.1.6.4 Change: The keyword auto cannot be used as a storage class specifier. void f() { auto int x; }
// valid C, invalid C++
Rationale: Allowing the use of auto to deduce the type of a variable from its initializer results in undesired § C.1.6
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interpretations of auto as a storage class specifier in certain contexts. Effect on original feature: Deletion of semantically well-defined feature. Difficulty of converting: Syntactic transformation. How widely used: Rare. 7.2 Change: C++ objects of enumeration type can only be assigned values of the same enumeration type. In C, objects of enumeration type can be assigned values of any integral type Example: enum color { red, blue, green }; enum color c = 1; // valid C, invalid C++
Rationale: The type-safe nature of C++. Effect on original feature: Deletion of semantically well-defined feature. Difficulty of converting: Syntactic transformation. (The type error produced by the assignment can be automatically corrected by applying an explicit cast.) How widely used: Common. 7.2 Change: In C++, the type of an enumerator is its enumeration. In C, the type of an enumerator is int. Example: enum e { A }; sizeof(A) == sizeof(int) // in C sizeof(A) == sizeof(e) // in C++ /∗ and sizeof(int) is not necessarily equal to sizeof(e) ∗/
Rationale: In C++, an enumeration is a distinct type. Effect on original feature: Change to semantics of well-defined feature. Difficulty of converting: Semantic transformation. How widely used: Seldom. The only time this affects existing C code is when the size of an enumerator is taken. Taking the size of an enumerator is not a common C coding practice.
C.1.7
Clause 8: declarators
[diff.decl]
8.3.5 Change: In C++, a function declared with an empty parameter list takes no arguments. In C, an empty parameter list means that the number and type of the function arguments are unknown. Example: int f();
// means int f(void) in C++ // int f( unknown ) in C
Rationale: This is to avoid erroneous function calls (i.e., function calls with the wrong number or type of arguments). Effect on original feature: Change to semantics of well-defined feature. This feature was marked as “obsolescent” in C. Difficulty of converting: Syntactic transformation. The function declarations using C incomplete declaration style must be completed to become full prototype declarations. A program may need to be updated further if different calls to the same (non-prototype) function have different numbers of arguments or if the type of corresponding arguments differed. How widely used: Common. 8.3.5 [see 5.3.3] Change: In C++, types may not be defined in return or parameter types. In C, these type definitions are allowed § C.1.7
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Example: void f( struct S { int a; } arg ) {} enum E { A, B, C } f() {}
// valid C, invalid C++ // valid C, invalid C++
Rationale: When comparing types in different compilation units, C++ relies on name equivalence when C relies on structural equivalence. Regarding parameter types: since the type defined in an parameter list would be in the scope of the function, the only legal calls in C++ would be from within the function itself. Effect on original feature: Deletion of semantically well-defined feature. Difficulty of converting: Semantic transformation. The type definitions must be moved to file scope, or in header files. How widely used: Seldom. This style of type definitions is seen as poor coding style. 8.4 Change: In C++, the syntax for function definition excludes the “old-style” C function. In C, “old-style” syntax is allowed, but deprecated as “obsolescent.” Rationale: Prototypes are essential to type safety. Effect on original feature: Deletion of semantically well-defined feature. Difficulty of converting: Syntactic transformation. How widely used: Common in old programs, but already known to be obsolescent. 8.5.2 Change: In C++, when initializing an array of character with a string, the number of characters in the string (including the terminating ’\0’) must not exceed the number of elements in the array. In C, an array can be initialized with a string even if the array is not large enough to contain the string-terminating ’\0’ Example: char array[4] = "abcd";
// valid C, invalid C++
Rationale: When these non-terminated arrays are manipulated by standard string routines, there is potential for major catastrophe. Effect on original feature: Deletion of semantically well-defined feature. Difficulty of converting: Semantic transformation. The arrays must be declared one element bigger to contain the string terminating ’\0’. How widely used: Seldom. This style of array initialization is seen as poor coding style.
C.1.8
Clause 9: classes
[diff.class]
9.1 [see also 7.1.3] Change: In C++, a class declaration introduces the class name into the scope where it is declared and hides any object, function or other declaration of that name in an enclosing scope. In C, an inner scope declaration of a struct tag name never hides the name of an object or function in an outer scope Example: int x[99]; void f() { struct x { int a; }; sizeof(x); /∗ size of the array in C ∗/ /∗ size of the struct in C++ ∗/ }
Rationale: This is one of the few incompatibilities between C and C++ that can be attributed to the new C++ name space definition where a name can be declared as a type and as a non-type in a single scope causing the non-type name to hide the type name and requiring that the keywords class, struct, union or enum be used to refer to the type name. This new name space definition provides important notational § C.1.8
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conveniences to C++ programmers and helps making the use of the user-defined types as similar as possible to the use of fundamental types. The advantages of the new name space definition were judged to outweigh by far the incompatibility with C described above. Effect on original feature: Change to semantics of well-defined feature. Difficulty of converting: Semantic transformation. If the hidden name that needs to be accessed is at global scope, the :: C++ operator can be used. If the hidden name is at block scope, either the type or the struct tag has to be renamed. How widely used: Seldom. 9.7 Change: In C++, the name of a nested class is local to its enclosing class. In C the name of the nested class belongs to the same scope as the name of the outermost enclosing class. Example: struct X { struct Y { /∗ ... ∗/ } y; }; struct Y yy;
// valid C, invalid C++
Rationale: C++ classes have member functions which require that classes establish scopes. The C rule would leave classes as an incomplete scope mechanism which would prevent C++ programmers from maintaining locality within a class. A coherent set of scope rules for C++ based on the C rule would be very complicated and C++ programmers would be unable to predict reliably the meanings of nontrivial examples involving nested or local functions. Effect on original feature: Change of semantics of well-defined feature. Difficulty of converting: Semantic transformation. To make the struct type name visible in the scope of the enclosing struct, the struct tag could be declared in the scope of the enclosing struct, before the enclosing struct is defined. Example: struct Y; struct X { struct Y { /∗ ... ∗/ } y; };
// struct Y and struct X are at the same scope
All the definitions of C struct types enclosed in other struct definitions and accessed outside the scope of the enclosing struct could be exported to the scope of the enclosing struct. Note: this is a consequence of the difference in scope rules, which is documented in 3.3. How widely used: Seldom. 9.9 Change: In C++, a typedef name may not be redeclared in a class definition after being used in that definition Example: typedef int I; struct S { I i; int I; };
// valid C, invalid C++
Rationale: When classes become complicated, allowing such a redefinition after the type has been used can create confusion for C++ programmers as to what the meaning of ’I’ really is. Effect on original feature: Deletion of semantically well-defined feature. Difficulty of converting: Semantic transformation. Either the type or the struct member has to be
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renamed. How widely used: Seldom.
C.1.9
Clause 12: special member functions
[diff.special]
12.8 Change: Copying volatile objects The implicitly-declared copy constructor and implicitly-declared copy assignment operator cannot make a copy of a volatile lvalue. For example, the following is valid in ISO C: struct X volatile struct X struct X x3 = x1;
{ int i; }; struct X x1 = {0}; x2(x1); x3;
// invalid C++ // also invalid C++
Rationale: Several alternatives were debated at length. Changing the parameter to volatile const X& would greatly complicate the generation of efficient code for class objects. Discussion of providing two alternative signatures for these implicitly-defined operations raised unanswered concerns about creating ambiguities and complicating the rules that specify the formation of these operators according to the bases and members. Effect on original feature: Deletion of semantically well-defined feature. Difficulty of converting: Semantic transformation. If volatile semantics are required for the copy, a user-declared constructor or assignment must be provided. [ Note: This user-declared constructor may be explicitly defaulted. — end note ] If non-volatile semantics are required, an explicit const_cast can be used. How widely used: Seldom.
C.1.10
Clause 16: preprocessing directives
[diff.cpp]
16.8 Change: Whether _ _ STDC _ _ is defined and if so, what its value is, are implementation-defined Rationale: C++ is not identical to ISO C. Mandating that _ _ STDC _ _ be defined would require that translators make an incorrect claim. Each implementation must choose the behavior that will be most useful to its marketplace. Effect on original feature: Change to semantics of well-defined feature. Difficulty of converting: Semantic transformation. How widely used: Programs and headers that reference _ _ STDC _ _ are quite common.
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C++ and ISO C++ 2003
[diff.cpp03]
This subclause lists the differences between C++ and ISO C++ 2003 (ISO/IEC 14882:2003, Programming Languages — C++ ), by the chapters of this document.
C.2.1
Clause 2: lexical conventions
[diff.cpp03.lex]
2.5 Change: New kinds of string literals Rationale: Required for new features. Effect on original feature: Valid C++ 2003 code may fail to compile or produce different results in this International Standard. Specifically, macros named R, u8, u8R, u, uR, U, UR, or LR will not be expanded when adjacent to a string literal but will be interpreted as part of the string literal. For example, #define u8 "abc" const char *s = u8"def";
// Previously "abcdef", now "def"
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Effect on original feature: Valid C++ 2003 code may fail to compile or produce different results in this International Standard, as the following example illustrates. #define _x "there" "hello"_x // #1
Previously, #1 would have consisted of two separate preprocessing tokens and the macro _x would have been expanded. In this International Standard, #1 consists of a single preprocessing tokens, so the macro is not expanded. 2.12 Change: New keywords Rationale: Required for new features. Effect on original feature: Added to Table 4, the following identifiers are new keywords: alignas, alignof, char16_t, char32_t, constexpr, decltype, noexcept, nullptr, static_assert, and thread_local. Valid C++ 2003 code using these identifiers is invalid in this International Standard. 2.14.2 Change: Type of integer literals Rationale: C99 compatibility. Effect on original feature: Certain integer literals larger than can be represented by long could change from an unsigned integer type to signed long long.
C.2.2
Clause 5: expressions
[diff.cpp03.expr]
5.6 Change: Specify rounding for results of integer / and % Rationale: Increase portability, C99 compatibility. Effect on original feature: Valid C++ 2003 code that uses integer division rounds the result toward 0 or toward negative infinity, whereas this International Standard always rounds the result toward 0.
C.2.3
Clause 7: declarations
[diff.cpp03.dcl.dcl]
7.1 Change: Remove auto as a storage class specifier Rationale: New feature. Effect on original feature: Valid C++ 2003 code that uses the keyword auto as a storage class specifier may be invalid in this International Standard. In this International Standard, auto indicates that the type of a variable is to be deduced from its initializer expression.
C.2.4
Clause 8: declarators
[diff.cpp03.dcl.decl]
8.5.4 Change: Narrowing restrictions in aggregate initializers Rationale: Catches bugs. Effect on original feature: Valid C++ 2003 code may fail to compile in this International Standard. For example, the following code is valid in C++ 2003 but invalid in this International Standard because double to int is a narrowing conversion: int x[] = { 2.0 };
C.2.5
Clause 12: special member functions
[diff.cpp03.special]
12.1, 12.4, 12.8 Change: Implicitly-declared special member functions are defined as deleted when the implicit definition would have been ill-formed. Rationale: Improves template argument deduction failure. Effect on original feature: A valid C++ 2003 program that uses one of these special member functions in a context where the definition is not required (e.g., in an expression that is not potentially evaluated) becomes ill-formed. § C.2.5
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12.4 (destructors) Change: User-declared destructors have an implicit exception specification. Rationale: Clarification of destructor requirements. Effect on original feature: Valid C++ 2003 code may execute differently in this International Standard. In particular, destructors that throw exceptions will call std::terminate() (without calling std::unexpected()) if their exception specification is noexcept or noexcept(true). For a throwing virtual destructor of a derived class, std::terminate() can be avoided only if the base class virtual destructor has an exception specification that is not noexcept and not noexcept(true).
C.2.6
Clause 14: templates
[diff.cpp03.temp]
14.1 Change: Remove export Rationale: No implementation consensus. Effect on original feature: A valid C++ 2003 declaration containing export is ill-formed in this International Standard. 14.3 Change: Remove whitespace requirement for nested closing template right angle brackets Rationale: Considered a persistent but minor annoyance. Template aliases representing nonclass types would exacerbate whitespace issues. Effect on original feature: Change to semantics of well-defined expression. A valid C++ 2003 expression containing a right angle bracket (“>”) followed immediately by another right angle bracket may now be treated as closing two templates. For example, the following code is valid in C++ 2003 because “»” is a right-shift operator, but invalid in this International Standard because “»” closes two templates. template struct X { }; template struct Y { }; X< Y< 1 >> 2 > > x;
14.6.4.2 Change: Allow dependent calls of functions with internal linkage Rationale: Overly constrained, simplify overload resolution rules. Effect on original feature: A valid C++ 2003 program could get a different result than this International Standard.
C.2.7
Clause 17: library introduction
[diff.cpp03.library]
17 – 30 Change: New reserved identifiers Rationale: Required by new features. Effect on original feature: Valid C++ 2003 code that uses any identifiers added to the C++ standard library by this International Standard may fail to compile or produce different results in This International Standard. A comprehensive list of identifiers used by the C++ standard library can be found in the Index of Library Names in this International Standard. 17.6.1.2 Change: New headers Rationale: New functionality. Effect on original feature: The following C++ headers are new: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . In addition the following C compatibility headers are new: , , , , , , , and . Valid C++ 2003 code that #includes headers with these names may be invalid in this International Standard.
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17.6.3.2 Effect on original feature: Function swap moved to a different header Rationale: Remove dependency on for swap. Effect on original feature: Valid C++ 2003 code that has been compiled expecting swap to be in may have to instead include . 17.6.4.2.2 Change: New reserved namespace Rationale: New functionality. Effect on original feature: The global namespace posix is now reserved for standardization. Valid C++ 2003 code that uses a top-level namespace posix may be invalid in this International Standard. 17.6.5.3 Change: Additional restrictions on macro names Rationale: Avoid hard to diagnose or non-portable constructs. Effect on original feature: Names of attribute identifiers may not be used as macro names. Valid C++ 2003 code that defines override, final, carries_dependency, or noreturn as macros is invalid in this International Standard.
C.2.8
Clause 18: language support library
[diff.cpp03.language.support]
18.6.1.1 Change: Linking new and delete operators Rationale: The two throwing single-object signatures of operator new and operator delete are now specified to form the base functionality for the other operators. This clarifies that replacing just these two signatures changes others, even if they are not explicitly changed. Effect on original feature: Valid C++ 2003 code that replaces global new or delete operators may execute differently in this International Standard. For example, the following program should write "custom deallocation" twice, once for the single-object delete and once for the array delete. #include #include #include void* operator new(std::size_t size) throw(std::bad_alloc) { return std::malloc(size); } void operator delete(void* ptr) throw() { std::puts("custom deallocation"); std::free(ptr); } int main() { int* i = new int; delete i; int* a = new int[3]; delete [] a; return 0; }
// single-object delete // array delete
18.6.1.1 Change: operator new may throw exceptions other than std::bad_alloc Rationale: Consistent application of noexcept. Effect on original feature: Valid C++ 2003 code that assumes that global operator new only throws
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C.2.9
Clause 19: diagnostics library
[diff.cpp03.diagnostics]
19.4 Change: Thread-local error numbers Rationale: Support for new thread facilities. Effect on original feature: Valid but implementation-specific C++ 2003 code that relies on errno being the same across threads may change behavior in this International Standard.
C.2.10
Clause 20: general utilities library
[diff.cpp03.utilities]
20.6.4 Change: Minimal support for garbage-collected regions Rationale: Required by new feature. Effect on original feature: Valid C++ 2003 code, compiled without traceable pointer support, that interacts with newer C++ code using regions declared reachable may have different runtime behavior. 20.8.3, 20.8.4, 20.8.5, 20.8.6, 20.8.7, 20.8.8 Change: Standard function object types no longer derived from std::unary_function or std::binary_function Rationale: Superseded by new feature. Effect on original feature: Valid C++ 2003 code that depends on function object types being derived from unary_function or binary_function will execute differently in this International Standard.
C.2.11
Clause 21: strings library
[diff.cpp03.strings]
21.3 Change: basic_string requirements no longer allow reference-counted strings Rationale: Invalidation is subtly different with reference-counted strings. This change regularizes behavior for this International Standard. Effect on original feature: Valid C++ 2003 code may execute differently in this International Standard. 21.4.1 Change: Loosen basic_string invalidation rules Rationale: Allow small-string optimization. Effect on original feature: Valid C++ 2003 code may execute differently in this International Standard. Some const member functions, such as data and c_str, no longer invalidate iterators.
C.2.12
Clause 23: containers library
[diff.cpp03.containers]
23.2 Change: Complexity of size() member functions now constant Rationale: Lack of specification of complexity of size() resulted in divergent implementations with inconsistent performance characteristics. Effect on original feature: Some container implementations that conform to C++ 2003 may not conform to the specified size() requirements in this International Standard. Adjusting containers such as std::list to the stricter requirements may require incompatible changes. 23.2 Change: Requirements change: relaxation Rationale: Clarification. Effect on original feature: Valid C++ 2003 code that attempts to meet the specified container requirements may now be over-specified. Code that attempted to be portable across containers may need to be adjusted as follows: — not all containers provide size(); use empty() instead of size() == 0; — not all containers are empty after construction (array); — not all containers have constant complexity for swap() (array).
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23.2 Change: Requirements change: default constructible Rationale: Clarification of container requirements. Effect on original feature: Valid C++ 2003 code that attempts to explicitly instantiate a container using a user-defined type with no default constructor may fail to compile. 23.2.3, 23.2.4 Change: Signature changes: from void return types Rationale: Old signature threw away useful information that may be expensive to recalculate. Effect on original feature: The following member functions have changed: — erase(iter) for set, multiset, map, multimap — erase(begin, end) for set, multiset, map, multimap — insert(pos, num, val) for vector, deque, list, forward_list — insert(pos, beg, end) for vector, deque, list, forward_list Valid C++ 2003 code that relies on these functions returning void (e.g., code that creates a pointer to member function that points to one of these functions) will fail to compile with this International Standard. 23.2.3, 23.2.4 Change: Signature changes: from iterator to const_iterator parameters Rationale: Overspecification. Effects: The signatures of the following member functions changed from taking an iterator to taking a const_iterator: — insert(iter, val) for vector, deque, list, set, multiset, map, multimap — insert(pos, beg, end) for vector, deque, list, forward_list — erase(iter) for set, multiset, map, multimap — erase(begin, end) for set, multiset, map, multimap — all forms of list::splice — all forms of list::merge Valid C++ 2003 code that uses these functions may fail to compile with this International Standard. 23.2.3, 23.2.4 Change: Signature changes: resize Rationale: Performance, compatibility with move semantics. Effect on original feature: For vector, deque, and list the fill value passed to resize is now passed by reference instead of by value, and an additional overload of resize has been added. Valid C++ 2003 code that uses this function may fail to compile with this International Standard.
C.2.13
Clause 25: algorithms library
[diff.cpp03.algorithms]
25.1 Change: Result state of inputs after application of some algorithms Rationale: Required by new feature. Effect on original feature: A valid C++ 2003 program may detect that an object with a valid but unspecified state has a different valid but unspecified state with this International Standard. For example,
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std::remove and std::remove_if may leave the tail of the input sequence with a different set of values than previously.
C.2.14
Clause 26: numerics library
[diff.cpp03.numerics]
26.4 Change: Specified representation of complex numbers Rationale: Compatibility with C99. Effect on original feature: Valid C++ 2003 code that uses implementation-specific knowledge about the binary representation of the required template specializations of std::complex may not be compatible with this International Standard.
C.2.15
Clause 27: Input/output library
[diff.cpp03.input.output]
27.7.2.1.3, 27.7.3.4, 27.5.5.4 Change: Specify use of explicit in existing boolean conversion operators Rationale: Clarify intentions, avoid workarounds. Effect on original feature: Valid C++ 2003 code that relies on implicit boolean conversions will fail to compile with this International Standard. Such conversions occur in the following conditions: — passing a value to a function that takes an argument of type bool; — using operator== to compare to false or true; — returning a value from a function with a return type of bool; — initializing members of type bool via aggregate initialization; — initializing a const bool& which would bind to a temporary. 27.5.3.1.1 Change: Change base class of std::ios_base::failure Rationale: More detailed error messages. Effect on original feature: std::ios_base::failure is no longer derived directly from std::exception, but is now derived from std::system_error, which in turn is derived from std::runtime_error. Valid C++ 2003 code that assumes that std::ios_base::failure is derived directly from std::exception may execute differently in this International Standard. 27.5.3 Change: Flag types in std::ios_base are now bitmasks with values defined as constexpr static members Rationale: Required for new features. Effect on original feature: Valid C++ 2003 code that relies on std::ios_base flag types being represented as std::bitset or as an integer type may fail to compile with this International Standard. For example: #include int main() { int flag = std::ios_base::hex; std::cout.setf(flag); // error: setf does not take argument of type int return 0; }
C.3 1
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C standard library
[diff.library]
This subclause summarizes the contents of the C++ standard library included from the Standard C library. It also summarizes the explicit changes in definitions, declarations, or behavior from the Standard C library noted in other subclauses (17.6.1.2, 18.2, 21.7). The C++ standard library provides 57 standard macros from the C library, as shown in Table 149.
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Table 149 — Standard macros assert BUFSIZ CLOCKS_PER_SEC EDOM EILSEQ EOF ERANGE errno EXIT_FAILURE EXIT_SUCCESS FILENAME_MAX FOPEN_MAX
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HUGE_VAL LC_ALL LC_COLLATE LC_CTYPE LC_MONETARY LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME L_tmpnam MB_CUR_MAX NULL NULL NULL
NULL NULL NULL offsetof RAND_MAX SEEK_CUR SEEK_END SEEK_SET setjmp SIGABRT SIGFPE SIGILL
SIGINT SIGSEGV SIGTERM SIG_DFL SIG_ERR SIG_IGN stderr stdin stdout TMP_MAX va_arg va_copy
va_end va_start WCHAR_MAX WCHAR_MIN WEOF WEOF _IOFBF _IOLBF _IONBF
The header names (enclosed in < and >) indicate that the macro may be defined in more than one header. All such definitions are equivalent (3.2). The C++ standard library provides 57 standard values from the C library, as shown in Table 150. Table 150 — Standard values CHAR_BIT CHAR_MAX CHAR_MIN DBL_DIG DBL_EPSILON DBL_MANT_DIG DBL_MAX DBL_MAX_10_EXP DBL_MAX_EXP DBL_MIN DBL_MIN_10_EXP DBL_MIN_EXP
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FLT_DIG FLT_EPSILON FLT_MANT_DIG FLT_MAX FLT_MAX_10_EXP FLT_MAX_EXP FLT_MIN FLT_MIN_10_EXP FLT_MIN_EXP FLT_RADIX FLT_ROUNDS INT_MAX
INT_MIN LDBL_DIG LDBL_EPSILON LDBL_MANT_DIG LDBL_MAX LDBL_MAX_10_EXP LDBL_MAX_EXP LDBL_MIN LDBL_MIN_10_EXP LDBL_MIN_EXP LONG_MAX LONG_MIN
MB_LEN_MAX SCHAR_MAX SCHAR_MIN SHRT_MAX SHRT_MIN UCHAR_MAX UINT_MAX ULONG_MAX USRT_MAX
The C++ standard library provides 20 standard types from the C library, as shown in Table 151. Table 151 — Standard types clock_t div_t FILE fpos_t jmp_buf
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ldiv_t mbstate_t ptrdiff_t sig_atomic_t size_t
size_t size_t size_t size_t time_t
va_list wctrans_t wctype_t wint_t wint_t
The C++ standard library provides 2 standard structs from the C library, as shown in Table 152. The C++ standard library provides 209 standard functions from the C library, as shown in Table 153.
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Table 153 — Standard functions abort abs acos asctime asin atan atan2 atexit atof atoi atol bsearch btowc calloc ceil clearerr clock cos cosh ctime difftime div exit exp fabs fclose feof ferror fflush fgetc fgetpos fgets fgetwc fgetws floor
§ C.3
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isupper iswalnum iswalpha iswcntrl iswctype iswdigit iswgraph iswlower iswprint iswpunct iswspace iswupper iswxdigit isxdigit labs ldexp ldiv localeconv localtime log log10 longjmp malloc mblen mbrlen mbrtowc mbsinit mbsrtowcs mbstowcs mbtowc memchr memcmp memcpy memmove memset
mktime modf perror pow printf putc putchar puts putwc putwchar qsort raise rand realloc remove rename rewind scanf setbuf setlocale setvbuf signal sin sinh sprintf sqrt srand sscanf strcat strchr strcmp strcoll strcpy strcspn strerror
strftime strlen strncat strncmp strncpy strpbrk strrchr strspn strstr strtod strtok strtol strtoul strxfrm swprintf swscanf system tan tanh time tmpfile tmpnam tolower toupper towctrans towlower towupper ungetc ungetwc vfprintf vfwprintf vprintf vsprintf vswprintf vwprintf
wcrtomb wcscat wcschr wcscmp wcscoll wcscpy wcscspn wcsftime wcslen wcsncat wcsncmp wcsncpy wcspbrk wcsrchr wcsrtombs wcsspn wcsstr wcstod wcstok wcstol wcstombs wcstoul wcsxfrm wctob wctomb wctrans wctype wmemchr wmemcmp wmemcpy wmemmove wmemset wprintf wscanf
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For compatibility with the Standard C library, the C++ standard library provides the 18 C headers (D.5), but their use is deprecated in C++.
C.3.2
Modifications to definitions
[diff.mods.to.definitions]
Types char16_t and char32_t
[diff.char16]
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The types char16_t and char32_t are distinct types rather than typedefs to existing integral types. C.3.2.2 Type wchar_t [diff.wchar.t]
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The tokens and, and_eq, bitand, bitor, compl, not_eq, not, or, or_eq, xor, and xor_eq are keywords in this International Standard (2.12). They do not appear as macro names defined in . C.3.2.4 Macro NULL [diff.null]
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C.3.3 1
Modifications to declarations
[diff.mods.to.declarations]
Header : The following functions have different declarations: — strchr — strpbrk — strrchr — strstr — memchr 21.7 describes the changes.
C.3.4 1
Modifications to behavior
[diff.mods.to.behavior]
Header : The following functions have different behavior: — atexit — exit — abort
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18.5 describes the changes. Header : The following functions have different behavior: — longjmp 18.10 describes the changes. C.3.4.1
Macro offsetof(type, member-designator)
[diff.offsetof]
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The macro offsetof, defined in , accepts a restricted set of type arguments in this International Standard. 18.2 describes the change. C.3.4.2 Memory allocation functions [diff.malloc]
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This Clause describes features of the C++ Standard that are specified for compatibility with existing implementations. These are deprecated features, where deprecated is defined as: Normative for the current edition of the Standard, but not guaranteed to be part of the Standard in future revisions.
D.1 1
[depr.register]
Implicit declaration of copy functions
[depr.impldec]
Dynamic exception specifications
[depr.except.spec]
The use of dynamic-exception-specifications is deprecated.
D.5 1
register keyword
The implicit definition of a copy constructor as defaulted is deprecated if the class has a user-declared copy assignment operator or a user-declared destructor. The implicit definition of a copy assignment operator as defaulted is deprecated if the class has a user-declared copy constructor or a user-declared destructor (12.4, 12.8). In a future revision of this International Standard, these implicit definitions could become deleted (8.4).
D.4 1
[depr.incr.bool]
The use of the register keyword as a storage-class-specifier (7.1.1) is deprecated.
D.3 1
Increment operator with bool operand
The use of an operand of type bool with the ++ operator is deprecated (see 5.3.2 and 5.2.6).
D.2 1
[depr]
C standard library headers
[depr.c.headers]
For compatibility with the C standard library and the C Unicode TR, the C++ standard library provides the 25 C headers, as shown in Table 154. Table 154 — C headers
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Every C header, each of which has a name of the form name.h, behaves as if each name placed in the standard library namespace by the corresponding cname header is placed within the global namespace scope. It is unspecified whether these names are first declared or defined within namespace scope (3.3.6) of the namespace std and are then injected into the global namespace scope by explicit using-declarations (7.3.3). [ Example: The header assuredly provides its declarations and definitions within the namespace std. It may also provide these names within the global namespace. The header assuredly provides the same declarations and definitions within the global namespace, much as in the C Standard. It may also provide these names within the namespace std. — end example ]
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Old iostreams members
[depr.ios.members]
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The type io_state is a synonym for an integer type (indicated here as T1 ) that permits certain member functions to overload others on parameters of type iostate and provide the same behavior. The type open_mode is a synonym for an integer type (indicated here as T2 ) that permits certain member functions to overload others on parameters of type openmode and provide the same behavior. The type seek_dir is a synonym for an integer type (indicated here as T3 ) that permits certain member functions to overload others on parameters of type seekdir and provide the same behavior. The type streamoff is an implementation-defined type that satisfies the requirements of off_type in 27.2.2. The type streampos is an implementation-defined type that satisfies the requirements of pos_type in 27.2.2. An implementation may provide the following additional member function, which has the effect of calling sbumpc() (27.6.3.2.3): namespace std { template class basic_streambuf { public: void stossc(); // remainder unchanged }; }
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}; template class basic_filebuf : public basic_streambuf { public: basic_filebuf* open (const char* s, ios_base::open_mode mode); // remainder unchanged }; template class basic_ifstream : public basic_istream { public: void open(const char* s, ios_base::open_mode mode); // remainder unchanged }; template class basic_ofstream : public basic_ostream { public: void open(const char* s, ios_base::open_mode mode); // remainder unchanged }; } 9
The effects of these functions is to call the corresponding member function specified in Clause 27.
D.7 1
char* streams
[depr.str.strstreams]
The header defines three types that associate stream buffers with character array objects and assist reading and writing such objects.
D.7.1
Class strstreambuf
[depr.strstreambuf]
namespace std { class strstreambuf : public basic_streambuf { public: explicit strstreambuf(streamsize alsize_arg = 0); strstreambuf(void* (*palloc_arg)(size_t), void (*pfree_arg)(void*)); strstreambuf(char* gnext_arg, streamsize n, char* pbeg_arg = 0); strstreambuf(const char* gnext_arg, streamsize n); strstreambuf(signed char* gnext_arg, streamsize n, signed char* pbeg_arg = 0); strstreambuf(const signed char* gnext_arg, streamsize n); strstreambuf(unsigned char* gnext_arg, streamsize n, unsigned char* pbeg_arg = 0); strstreambuf(const unsigned char* gnext_arg, streamsize n); virtual ~strstreambuf(); void freeze(bool freezefl = true); char* str(); int pcount(); protected: virtual int_type overflow (int_type c = EOF); virtual int_type pbackfail(int_type c = EOF);
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virtual int_type underflow(); virtual pos_type seekoff(off_type off, ios_base::seekdir way, ios_base::openmode which = ios_base::in | ios_base::out); virtual pos_type seekpos(pos_type sp, ios_base::openmode which = ios_base::in | ios_base::out); virtual streambuf* setbuf(char* s, streamsize n); private: typedef T1 strstate; static const strstate allocated; static const strstate constant; static const strstate dynamic; static const strstate frozen; strstate strmode; streamsize alsize; void* (*palloc)(size_t); void (*pfree)(void*); };
// // // // // // // // //
exposition exposition exposition exposition exposition exposition exposition exposition exposition
only only only only only only only only only
} 1
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The class strstreambuf associates the input sequence, and possibly the output sequence, with an object of some character array type, whose elements store arbitrary values. The array object has several attributes. [ Note: For the sake of exposition, these are represented as elements of a bitmask type (indicated here as T1) called strstate. The elements are: — allocated, set when a dynamic array object has been allocated, and hence should be freed by the destructor for the strstreambuf object; — constant, set when the array object has const elements, so the output sequence cannot be written; — dynamic, set when the array object is allocated (or reallocated) as necessary to hold a character sequence that can change in length; — frozen, set when the program has requested that the array object not be altered, reallocated, or freed.
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— end note ] [ Note: For the sake of exposition, the maintained data is presented here as: — strstate strmode, the attributes of the array object associated with the strstreambuf object; — int alsize, the suggested minimum size for a dynamic array object; — void* (*palloc(size_t), points to the function to call to allocate a dynamic array object; — void (*pfree)(void*), points to the function to call to free a dynamic array object.
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— end note ] Each object of class strstreambuf has a seekable area, delimited by the pointers seeklow and seekhigh. If gnext is a null pointer, the seekable area is undefined. Otherwise, seeklow equals gbeg and seekhigh is either pend, if pend is not a null pointer, or gend. D.7.1.1
strstreambuf constructors
[depr.strstreambuf.cons]
explicit strstreambuf(streamsize alsize_arg = 0); 1
Effects: Constructs an object of class strstreambuf, initializing the base class with streambuf(). The postconditions of this function are indicated in Table 155. § D.7.1.1
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Table 155 — strstreambuf(streamsize) effects Element strmode alsize palloc pfree
Value dynamic alsize_arg a null pointer a null pointer
strstreambuf(void* (*palloc_arg)(size_t), void (*pfree_arg)(void*)); 2
Effects: Constructs an object of class strstreambuf, initializing the base class with streambuf(). The postconditions of this function are indicated in Table 156. Table 156 — strstreambuf(void* (*)(size_t), void (*)(void*)) effects Element strmode alsize palloc pfree
Value dynamic an unspecified value palloc_arg pfree_arg
strstreambuf(char* gnext_arg, streamsize n, char *pbeg_arg = 0); strstreambuf(signed char* gnext_arg, streamsize n, signed char *pbeg_arg = 0); strstreambuf(unsigned char* gnext_arg, streamsize n, unsigned char *pbeg_arg = 0); 3
Effects: Constructs an object of class strstreambuf, initializing the base class with streambuf(). The postconditions of this function are indicated in Table 157. Table 157 — strstreambuf(charT*, streamsize, charT*) effects Element strmode alsize palloc pfree
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Value 0 an unspecified value a null pointer a null pointer
gnext_arg shall point to the first element of an array object whose number of elements N is determined as follows: — If n > 0, N is n. — If n == 0, N is std::strlen(gnext_arg). — If n < 0, N is INT_MAX.336 336) The function signature strlen(const char*) is declared in . (18.3).
§ D.7.1.1
(21.7).
The macro INT_MAX is defined in
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If pbeg_arg is a null pointer, the function executes: setg(gnext_arg, gnext_arg, gnext_arg + N);
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Otherwise, the function executes: setg(gnext_arg, gnext_arg, pbeg_arg); setp(pbeg_arg, pbeg_arg + N); strstreambuf(const char* gnext_arg, streamsize n); strstreambuf(const signed char* gnext_arg, streamsize n); strstreambuf(const unsigned char* gnext_arg, streamsize n);
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Effects: Behaves the same as strstreambuf((char*)gnext_arg,n), except that the constructor also sets constant in strmode. virtual ~strstreambuf();
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Effects: Destroys an object of class strstreambuf. The function frees the dynamically allocated array object only if strmode & allocated != 0 and strmode & frozen == 0. (D.7.1.3 describes how a dynamically allocated array object is freed.) D.7.1.2
Member functions
[depr.strstreambuf.members]
void freeze(bool freezefl = true); 1
Effects: If strmode & dynamic is non-zero, alters the freeze status of the dynamic array object as follows: — If freezefl is true, the function sets frozen in strmode. — Otherwise, it clears frozen in strmode. char* str();
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Effects: Calls freeze(), then returns the beginning pointer for the input sequence, gbeg.
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Remarks: The return value can be a null pointer. int pcount() const;
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Effects: If the next pointer for the output sequence, pnext, is a null pointer, returns zero. Otherwise, returns the current effective length of the array object as the next pointer minus the beginning pointer for the output sequence, pnext - pbeg. D.7.1.3
strstreambuf overridden virtual functions
[depr.strstreambuf.virtuals]
int_type overflow(int_type c = EOF); 1
Effects: Appends the character designated by c to the output sequence, if possible, in one of two ways:
2
— If c != EOF and if either the output sequence has a write position available or the function makes a write position available (as described below), assigns c to *pnext++. Returns (unsigned char)c.
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— If c == EOF, there is no character to append. Returns a value other than EOF. § D.7.1.3
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Returns EOF to indicate failure.
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Remarks: The function can alter the number of write positions available as a result of any call.
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To make a write position available, the function reallocates (or initially allocates) an array object with a sufficient number of elements n to hold the current array object (if any), plus at least one additional write position. How many additional write positions are made available is otherwise unspecified.337 If palloc is not a null pointer, the function calls (*palloc)(n) to allocate the new dynamic array object. Otherwise, it evaluates the expression new charT[n]. In either case, if the allocation fails, the function returns EOF. Otherwise, it sets allocated in strmode.
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To free a previously existing dynamic array object whose first element address is p: If pfree is not a null pointer, the function calls (*pfree)(p). Otherwise, it evaluates the expression delete[]p.
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If strmode & dynamic == 0, or if strmode & frozen != 0, the function cannot extend the array (reallocate it with greater length) to make a write position available. int_type pbackfail(int_type c = EOF);
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Puts back the character designated by c to the input sequence, if possible, in one of three ways:
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— If c != EOF, if the input sequence has a putback position available, and if (char)c == gnext[-1], assigns gnext - 1 to gnext. Returns c.
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— If c != EOF, if the input sequence has a putback position available, and if strmode & constant is zero, assigns c to *--gnext. Returns c.
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— If c == EOF and if the input sequence has a putback position available, assigns gnext - 1 to gnext. Returns a value other than EOF.
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Returns EOF to indicate failure.
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Remarks: If the function can succeed in more than one of these ways, it is unspecified which way is chosen. The function can alter the number of putback positions available as a result of any call. int_type underflow();
15
Effects: Reads a character from the input sequence, if possible, without moving the stream position past it, as follows: — If the input sequence has a read position available, the function signals success by returning (unsigned char)*gnext.
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— Otherwise, if the current write next pointer pnext is not a null pointer and is greater than the current read end pointer gend, makes a read position available by assigning to gend a value greater than gnext and no greater than pnext. Returns (unsigned char*)gnext.
17
Returns EOF to indicate failure.
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Remarks: The function can alter the number of read positions available as a result of any call. 337) An implementation should consider alsize in making this decision.
§ D.7.1.3
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pos_type seekoff(off_type off, seekdir way, openmode which = in | out); 19
Effects: Alters the stream position within one of the controlled sequences, if possible, as indicated in Table 158. Table 158 — seekoff positioning Conditions (which & ios::in) != 0 (which & ios::out) != 0 (which & (ios::in | ios::out)) == (ios::in | ios::out)) and way == either ios::beg or ios::end Otherwise
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Result positions the input sequence positions the output sequence positions both the input and the output sequences
the positioning operation fails.
For a sequence to be positioned, if its next pointer is a null pointer, the positioning operation fails. Otherwise, the function determines newoff as indicated in Table 159. Table 159 — newoff values Condition way == ios::beg way == ios::cur way == ios::end If (newoff + off) < (seeklow - xbeg), or (seekhigh - xbeg) < (newoff + off)
newoff Value 0 the next pointer minus the beginning pointer (xnext - xbeg). seekhigh minus the beginning pointer (seekhigh - xbeg). the positioning operation fails
21
Otherwise, the function assigns xbeg + newoff + off to the next pointer xnext.
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Returns: pos_type(newoff), constructed from the resultant offset newoff (of type off_type), that stores the resultant stream position, if possible. If the positioning operation fails, or if the constructed object cannot represent the resultant stream position, the return value is pos_type(off_type(-1)). pos_type seekpos(pos_type sp, ios_base::openmode which = ios_base::in | ios_base::out);
23
Effects: Alters the stream position within one of the controlled sequences, if possible, to correspond to the stream position stored in sp (as described below). — If (which & ios::in) != 0, positions the input sequence. — If (which & ios::out) != 0, positions the output sequence.
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— If the function positions neither sequence, the positioning operation fails. For a sequence to be positioned, if its next pointer is a null pointer, the positioning operation fails. Otherwise, the function determines newoff from sp.offset():
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— If newoff is an invalid stream position, has a negative value, or has a value greater than (seekhigh - seeklow), the positioning operation fails — Otherwise, the function adds newoff to the beginning pointer xbeg and stores the result in the next pointer xnext. 25
Returns: pos_type(newoff), constructed from the resultant offset newoff (of type off_type), that stores the resultant stream position, if possible. If the positioning operation fails, or if the constructed object cannot represent the resultant stream position, the return value is pos_type(off_type(-1)). streambuf* setbuf(char* s, streamsize n);
26
Effects: Implementation defined, except that setbuf(0, 0) has no effect.
D.7.2
Class istrstream
[depr.istrstream]
namespace std { class istrstream : public basic_istream { public: explicit istrstream(const char* s); explicit istrstream(char* s); istrstream(const char* s, streamsize n); istrstream(char* s, streamsize n); virtual ~istrstream(); strstreambuf* rdbuf() const; char *str(); private: strstreambuf sb; // exposition only }; } 1
The class istrstream supports the reading of objects of class strstreambuf. It supplies a strstreambuf object to control the associated array object. For the sake of exposition, the maintained data is presented here as: — sb, the strstreambuf object. D.7.2.1
istrstream constructors
[depr.istrstream.cons]
explicit istrstream(const char* s); explicit istrstream(char* s); 1
Effects: Constructs an object of class istrstream, initializing the base class with istream(&sb) and initializing sb with strstreambuf(s,0)). s shall designate the first element of an ntbs. istrstream(const char* s, streamsize n);
2
Effects: Constructs an object of class istrstream, initializing the base class with istream(&sb) and initializing sb with strstreambuf(s,n)). s shall designate the first element of an array whose length is n elements, and n shall be greater than zero.
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Member functions
N3376
[depr.istrstream.members]
strstreambuf* rdbuf() const; 1
Returns: const_cast(&sb). char* str();
2
Returns: rdbuf()->str().
D.7.3
Class ostrstream
[depr.ostrstream]
namespace std { class ostrstream : public basic_ostream { public: ostrstream(); ostrstream(char* s, int n, ios_base::openmode mode = ios_base::out); virtual ~ostrstream(); strstreambuf* rdbuf() const; void freeze(bool freezefl = true); char* str(); int pcount() const; private: strstreambuf sb; // exposition only }; } 1
The class ostrstream supports the writing of objects of class strstreambuf. It supplies a strstreambuf object to control the associated array object. For the sake of exposition, the maintained data is presented here as: — sb, the strstreambuf object. D.7.3.1
ostrstream constructors
[depr.ostrstream.cons]
ostrstream(); 1
Effects: Constructs an object of class ostrstream, initializing the base class with ostream(&sb) and initializing sb with strstreambuf()). ostrstream(char* s, int n, ios_base::openmode mode = ios_base::out);
2
Effects: Constructs an object of class ostrstream, initializing the base class with ostream(&sb), and initializing sb with one of two constructors: — If (mode & app) == 0, then s shall designate the first element of an array of n elements. The constructor is strstreambuf(s, n, s). — If (mode & app) != 0, then s shall designate the first element of an array of n elements that contains an ntbs whose first element is designated by s. The constructor is strstreambuf(s, n, s + std::strlen(s)).338 338) The function signature strlen(const char*) is declared in (21.7).
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Member functions
[depr.ostrstream.members]
strstreambuf* rdbuf() const; 1
Returns: (strstreambuf*)&sb . void freeze(bool freezefl = true);
2
Effects: Calls rdbuf()->freeze(freezefl). char* str();
3
Returns: rdbuf()->str(). int pcount() const;
4
Returns: rdbuf()->pcount().
D.7.4
Class strstream
[depr.strstream]
namespace std { class strstream : public basic_iostream { public: // Types typedef char char_type; typedef typename char_traits::int_type int_type; typedef typename char_traits::pos_type pos_type; typedef typename char_traits::off_type off_type; // constructors/destructor strstream(); strstream(char* s, int n, ios_base::openmode mode = ios_base::in|ios_base::out); virtual ~strstream(); // Members: strstreambuf* rdbuf() const; void freeze(bool freezefl = true); int pcount() const; char* str(); private: strstreambuf sb; };
// exposition only
} 1
The class strstream supports reading and writing from objects of classs strstreambuf. It supplies a strstreambuf object to control the associated array object. For the sake of exposition, the maintained data is presented here as — sb, the strstreambuf object.
§ D.7.4
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strstream constructors
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[depr.strstream.cons]
strstream(); 1
Effects: Constructs an object of class strstream, initializing the base class with iostream(&sb). strstream(char* s, int n, ios_base::openmode mode = ios_base::in|ios_base::out);
2
Effects: Constructs an object of class strstream, initializing the base class with iostream(&sb) and initializing sb with one of the two constructors: — If (mode & app) == 0, then s shall designate the first element of an array of n elements. The constructor is strstreambuf(s,n,s). — If (mode & app) != 0, then s shall designate the first element of an array of n elements that contains an ntbs whose first element is designated by s. The constructor is strstreambuf(s,n,s + std::strlen(s)). D.7.4.2
strstream destructor
[depr.strstream.dest]
virtual ~strstream() 1
Effects: Destroys an object of class strstream. strstreambuf* rdbuf() const;
2
Returns: &sb. D.7.4.3
strstream operations
[depr.strstream.oper]
void freeze(bool freezefl = true); 1
Effects: Calls rdbuf()->freeze(freezefl). char* str();
2
Returns: rdbuf()->str(). int pcount() const;
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Returns: rdbuf()->pcount().
D.8 D.8.1 1
Function objects Base
[depr.function.objects] [depr.base]
The class templates unary_function and binary_function are deprecated. A program shall not declare specializations of these templates. namespace std { template struct unary_function { typedef Arg argument_type; typedef Result result_type; }; }
§ D.8.1
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namespace std { template struct binary_function { typedef Arg1 first_argument_type; typedef Arg2 second_argument_type; typedef Result result_type; }; }
D.8.2
Function adaptors
[depr.adaptors]
1
The adaptors ptr_fun, mem_fun, mem_fun_ref, and their corresponding return types are deprecated. [ Note: The function template bind 20.8.9.1 provides a better solution. — end note ] D.8.2.1 Adaptors for pointers to functions [depr.function.pointer.adaptors]
1
To allow pointers to (unary and binary) functions to work with function adaptors the library provides: template class pointer_to_unary_function : public unary_function { public: explicit pointer_to_unary_function(Result (*f)(Arg)); Result operator()(Arg x) const; };
2
operator() returns f(x). template pointer_to_unary_function ptr_fun(Result (*f)(Arg));
3
Returns: pointer_to_unary_function(f). template class pointer_to_binary_function : public binary_function { public: explicit pointer_to_binary_function(Result (*f)(Arg1, Arg2)); Result operator()(Arg1 x, Arg2 y) const; };
4
operator() returns f(x,y). template pointer_to_binary_function ptr_fun(Result (*f)(Arg1, Arg2));
5
Returns: pointer_to_binary_function(f).
6
[ Example: int compare(const char*, const char*); replace_if(v.begin(), v.end(), not1(bind2nd(ptr_fun(compare), "abc")), "def");
replaces each abc with def in sequence v. — end example ]
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Adaptors for pointers to members
N3376
[depr.member.pointer.adaptors]
The purpose of the following is to provide the same facilities for pointer to members as those provided for pointers to functions in D.8.2.1. template class mem_fun_t : public unary_function { public: explicit mem_fun_t(S (T::*p)()); S operator()(T* p) const; };
2
mem_fun_t calls the member function it is initialized with given a pointer argument. template class mem_fun1_t : public binary_function { public: explicit mem_fun1_t(S (T::*p)(A)); S operator()(T* p, A x) const; };
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mem_fun1_t calls the member function it is initialized with given a pointer argument and an additional argument of the appropriate type. template mem_fun_t mem_fun(S (T::*f)()); template mem_fun1_t mem_fun(S (T::*f)(A));
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mem_fun(&X::f) returns an object through which X::f can be called given a pointer to an X followed by the argument required for f (if any). template class mem_fun_ref_t : public unary_function { public: explicit mem_fun_ref_t(S (T::*p)()); S operator()(T& p) const; };
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mem_fun_ref_t calls the member function it is initialized with given a reference argument. template class mem_fun1_ref_t : public binary_function { public: explicit mem_fun1_ref_t(S (T::*p)(A)); S operator()(T& p, A x) const; };
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mem_fun1_ref_t calls the member function it is initialized with given a reference argument and an additional argument of the appropriate type.
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template mem_fun_ref_t mem_fun_ref(S (T::*f)()); template mem_fun1_ref_t mem_fun_ref(S (T::*f)(A)); 7
mem_fun_ref(&X::f) returns an object through which X::f can be called given a reference to an X followed by the argument required for f (if any). template class const_mem_fun_t : public unary_function { public: explicit const_mem_fun_t(S (T::*p)() const); S operator()(const T* p) const; };
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const_mem_fun_t calls the member function it is initialized with given a pointer argument. template class const_mem_fun1_t : public binary_function { public: explicit const_mem_fun1_t(S (T::*p)(A) const); S operator()(const T* p, A x) const; };
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const_mem_fun1_t calls the member function it is initialized with given a pointer argument and an additional argument of the appropriate type. template const_mem_fun_t mem_fun(S (T::*f)() const); template const_mem_fun1_t mem_fun(S (T::*f)(A) const);
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mem_fun(&X::f) returns an object through which X::f can be called given a pointer to an X followed by the argument required for f (if any). template class const_mem_fun_ref_t : public unary_function { public: explicit const_mem_fun_ref_t(S (T::*p)() const); S operator()(const T& p) const; };
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const_mem_fun_ref_t calls the member function it is initialized with given a reference argument. template class const_mem_fun1_ref_t : public binary_function { public: explicit const_mem_fun1_ref_t(S (T::*p)(A) const); S operator()(const T& p, A x) const; };
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const_mem_fun1_ref_t calls the member function it is initialized with given a reference argument and an additional argument of the appropriate type. template const_mem_fun_ref_t mem_fun_ref(S (T::*f)() const); template const_mem_fun1_ref_t mem_fun_ref(S (T::*f)(A) const);
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mem_fun_ref(&X::f) returns an object through which X::f can be called given a reference to an X followed by the argument required for f (if any).
D.9
Binders
[depr.lib.binders]
The binders binder1st, bind1st, binder2nd, and bind2nd are deprecated. [ Note: The function template bind (20.8.9) provides a better solution. — end note ]
D.9.1
Class template binder1st
[depr.lib.binder.1st]
template class binder1st : public unary_function { protected: Fn op; typename Fn::first_argument_type value; public: binder1st(const Fn& x, const typename Fn::first_argument_type& y); typename Fn::result_type operator()(const typename Fn::second_argument_type& x) const; typename Fn::result_type operator()(typename Fn::second_argument_type& x) const; }; 1
The constructor initializes op with x and value with y.
2
operator() returns op(value,x).
D.9.2
bind1st
[depr.lib.bind.1st]
template binder1st bind1st(const Fn& fn, const T& x); 1
Returns: binder1st(fn, typename Fn::first_argument_type(x)).
D.9.3
Class template binder2nd
[depr.lib.binder.2nd]
template class binder2nd : public unary_function { protected: Fn op; typename Fn::second_argument_type value; public: binder2nd(const Fn& x, const typename Fn::second_argument_type& y);
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typename Fn::result_type operator()(const typename Fn::first_argument_type& x) const; typename Fn::result_type operator()(typename Fn::first_argument_type& x) const; }; 1
The constructor initializes op with x and value with y.
2
operator() returns op(x,value).
D.9.4
[depr.lib.bind.2nd]
bind2nd
template binder2nd bind2nd(const Fn& op, const T& x); 1
Returns: binder2nd(op, typename Fn::second_argument_type(x)).
2
[ Example: find_if(v.begin(), v.end(), bind2nd(greater(), 5));
finds the first integer in vector v greater than 5; find_if(v.begin(), v.end(), bind1st(greater(), 5));
finds the first integer in v less than 5. — end example ]
D.10
[depr.auto.ptr]
auto_ptr
The class template auto_ptr is deprecated. [ Note: The class template unique_ptr (20.7.1) provides a better solution. — end note ]
D.10.1 1
2
Class template auto_ptr
[auto.ptr]
The class template auto_ptr stores a pointer to an object obtained via new and deletes that object when it itself is destroyed (such as when leaving block scope 6.7). The class template auto_ptr_ref is for exposition only. An implementation is permitted to provide equivalent functionality without providing a template with this name. The template holds a reference to an auto_ptr. It is used by the auto_ptr conversions to allow auto_ptr objects to be passed to and returned from functions. namespace std { template struct auto_ptr_ref;
// exposition only
template class auto_ptr { public: typedef X element_type; // D.10.1.1 construct/copy/destroy: explicit auto_ptr(X* p =0) throw(); auto_ptr(auto_ptr&) throw(); template auto_ptr(auto_ptr&) throw(); auto_ptr& operator=(auto_ptr&) throw(); template auto_ptr& operator=(auto_ptr&) throw(); auto_ptr& operator=(auto_ptr_ref r) throw(); ~auto_ptr() throw(); // X& X* X*
§ D.10.1
D.10.1.2 members: operator*() const throw(); operator->() const throw(); get() const throw();
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X* release() throw(); void reset(X* p =0) throw(); // D.10.1.3 conversions: auto_ptr(auto_ptr_ref) throw(); template operator auto_ptr_ref() throw(); template operator auto_ptr() throw(); }; template class auto_ptr { public: typedef void element_type; }; } 3
The class template auto_ptr provides a semantics of strict ownership. An auto_ptr owns the object it holds a pointer to. Copying an auto_ptr copies the pointer and transfers ownership to the destination. If more than one auto_ptr owns the same object at the same time the behavior of the program is undefined. [ Note: The uses of auto_ptr include providing temporary exception-safety for dynamically allocated memory, passing ownership of dynamically allocated memory to a function, and returning dynamically allocated memory from a function. Instances of auto_ptr meet the requirements of MoveConstructible and MoveAssignable, but do not meet the requirements of CopyConstructible and CopyAssignable. — end note ] D.10.1.1 auto_ptr constructors [auto.ptr.cons] explicit auto_ptr(X* p =0) throw();
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Postconditions: *this holds the pointer p. auto_ptr(auto_ptr& a) throw();
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Effects: Calls a.release().
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Postconditions: *this holds the pointer returned from a.release(). template auto_ptr(auto_ptr& a) throw();
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Requires: Y* can be implicitly converted to X*.
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Effects: Calls a.release().
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Postconditions: *this holds the pointer returned from a.release(). auto_ptr& operator=(auto_ptr& a) throw();
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Requires: The expression delete get() is well formed.
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Effects: reset(a.release()).
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Returns: *this. template auto_ptr& operator=(auto_ptr& a) throw();
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Requires: Y* can be implicitly converted to X*. The expression delete get() is well formed.
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Effects: reset(a.release()).
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Returns: *this. § D.10.1.1
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~auto_ptr() throw(); 13
Requires: The expression delete get() is well formed.
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Effects: delete get(). D.10.1.2
auto_ptr members
[auto.ptr.members]
X& operator*() const throw(); 1
Requires: get() != 0
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Returns: *get() X* operator->() const throw();
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Returns: get() X* get() const throw();
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Returns: The pointer *this holds. X* release() throw();
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Returns: get()
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Postcondition: *this holds the null pointer. void reset(X* p=0) throw();
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Effects: If get() != p then delete get().
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Postconditions: *this holds the pointer p. D.10.1.3
auto_ptr conversions
[auto.ptr.conv]
auto_ptr(auto_ptr_ref r) throw(); 1
Effects: Calls p.release() for the auto_ptr p that r holds.
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Postconditions: *this holds the pointer returned from release(). template operator auto_ptr_ref() throw();
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Returns: An auto_ptr_ref that holds *this. template operator auto_ptr() throw();
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Effects: Calls release().
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Returns: An auto_ptr that holds the pointer returned from release(). auto_ptr& operator=(auto_ptr_ref r) throw()
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Effects: Calls reset(p.release()) for the auto_ptr p that r holds a reference to.
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Returns: *this § D.10.1.3
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Violating exception-specifications Type unexpected_handler
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[exception.unexpected] [unexpected.handler]
typedef void (*unexpected_handler)(); 1
The type of a handler function to be called by unexpected() when a function attempts to throw an exception not listed in its dynamic-exception-specification.
2
Required behavior: An unexpected_handler shall not return. See also 15.5.2.
3
Default behavior: The implementation’s default unexpected_handler calls std::terminate().
D.11.2
set_unexpected
[set.unexpected]
unexpected_handler set_unexpected(unexpected_handler f) noexcept; 1
Effects: Establishes the function designated by f as the current unexpected_handler.
2
Remark: It is unspecified whether a null pointer value designates the default unexpected_handler.
3
Returns: The previous unexpected_handler.
D.11.3
get_unexpected
[get.unexpected]
unexpected_handler get_unexpected() noexcept; 1
Returns: The current unexpected_handler. [ Note: This may be a null pointer value. — end note ]
D.11.4
unexpected
[unexpected]
[[noreturn]] void unexpected(); 1
Remarks: Called by the implementation when a function exits via an exception not allowed by its exception-specification (15.5.2), in effect after evaluating the throw-expression (D.11.1). May also be called directly by the program.
2
Effects: Calls the current unexpected_handler function. [ Note: A default unexpected_handler is always considered a callable handler in this context. — end note ]
§ D.11.4
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Annex E (normative) Universal character names for identifier characters [charname] E.1
Ranges of characters allowed
[charname.allowed]
00A8, 00AA, 00AD, 00AF, 00B2-00B5, 00B7-00BA, 00BC-00BE, 00C0-00D6, 00D8-00F6, 00F8-00FF 0100-167F, 1681-180D, 180F-1FFF 200B-200D, 202A-202E, 203F-2040, 2054, 2060-206F 2070-218F, 2460-24FF, 2776-2793, 2C00-2DFF, 2E80-2FFF 3004-3007, 3021-302F, 3031-303F 3040-D7FF F900-FD3D, FD40-FDCF, FDF0-FE44, FE47-FFFD 10000-1FFFD, 20000-2FFFD, 30000-3FFFD, 40000-4FFFD, 50000-5FFFD, 60000-6FFFD, 70000-7FFFD, 80000-8FFFD, 90000-9FFFD, A0000-AFFFD, B0000-BFFFD, C0000-CFFFD, D0000-DFFFD, E0000-EFFFD
E.2
Ranges of characters disallowed initially
[charname.disallowed]
0300-036F, 1DC0-1DFF, 20D0-20FF, FE20-FE2F
§ E.2
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Annex F (informative) Cross references
[xref]
This annex lists each section label and the corresponding section number, in alphabetical order by label. All of the section labels are the same as in the 2003 standard, except: — labels that begin with lib. in the 2003 standard have had the lib. removed so that they do not all appear in the same part of this list. For example, in the 2003 standard, the non-modifying sequence algorithms were found in a section with the label [lib.alg.nonmodifying]. The label for that section is now [alg.nonmodifying]. — the label for Annex B has been changed from [limits] to [implimits]. The label [limits] refers to section 18.3.2. A accumulate 26.7.2 adjacent.difference 26.7.5 adjustfield.manip 27.5.6.2 alg.adjacent.find 25.2.8 alg.all_of 25.2.1 alg.any_of 25.2.2 alg.binary.search 25.4.3 alg.c.library 25.5 alg.copy 25.3.1 alg.count 25.2.9 alg.equal 25.2.11 alg.fill 25.3.6 alg.find 25.2.5 alg.find.end 25.2.6 alg.find.first.of 25.2.7 alg.foreach 25.2.4 alg.generate 25.3.7 alg.heap.operations 25.4.6 alg.is_permutation 25.2.12 alg.lex.comparison 25.4.8 alg.merge 25.4.4 alg.min.max 25.4.7 alg.modifying.operations 25.3 alg.move 25.3.2 alg.none_of 25.2.3 alg.nonmodifying 25.2 alg.nth.element 25.4.2 alg.partitions 25.3.13 alg.permutation.generators 25.4.9 alg.random.shuffle 25.3.12 alg.remove 25.3.8 alg.replace 25.3.5 Cross references
alg.reverse 25.3.10 alg.rotate 25.3.11 alg.search 25.2.13 alg.set.operations 25.4.5 alg.sort 25.4.1 alg.sorting 25.4 alg.swap 25.3.3 alg.transform 25.3.4 alg.unique 25.3.9 algorithm.stable 17.6.5.7 algorithms 25 algorithms.general 25.1 alloc.errors 18.6.2 allocator.adaptor 20.12 allocator.adaptor.cnstr 20.12.3 allocator.adaptor.members 20.12.4 allocator.adaptor.syn 20.12.1 allocator.adaptor.types 20.12.2 allocator.globals 20.6.9.2 allocator.members 20.6.9.1 allocator.requirements 17.6.3.5 allocator.tag 20.6.6 allocator.traits 20.6.8 allocator.traits.members 20.6.8.2 allocator.traits.types 20.6.8.1 allocator.uses 20.6.7 allocator.uses.construction 20.6.7.2 allocator.uses.trait 20.6.7.1 alt.headers 17.6.4.4 arithmetic.operations 20.8.4 array 23.3.2 array.cons 23.3.2.2 array.data 23.3.2.5 1223
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array.fill 23.3.2.6 array.overview 23.3.2.1 array.size 23.3.2.4 array.special 23.3.2.3 array.swap 23.3.2.7 array.tuple 23.3.2.9 array.zero 23.3.2.8 assertions 19.3 associative 23.4 associative.general 23.4.1 associative.map.syn 23.4.2 associative.reqmts 23.2.4 associative.reqmts.except 23.2.4.1 associative.set.syn 23.4.3 atomics 29 atomics.fences 29.8 atomics.flag 29.7 atomics.general 29.1 atomics.lockfree 29.4 atomics.order 29.3 atomics.syn 29.2 atomics.types.generic 29.5 atomics.types.operations 29.6 atomics.types.operations.arith 29.6.3 atomics.types.operations.general 29.6.1 atomics.types.operations.pointer 29.6.4 atomics.types.operations.req 29.6.5 atomics.types.operations.templ 29.6.2 auto.ptr D.10.1 auto.ptr.cons D.10.1.1 auto.ptr.conv D.10.1.3 auto.ptr.members D.10.1.2 B back.insert.iter.cons 24.5.2.2.1 back.insert.iter.op* 24.5.2.2.3 back.insert.iter.op++ 24.5.2.2.4 back.insert.iter.op= 24.5.2.2.2 back.insert.iter.ops 24.5.2.2 back.insert.iterator 24.5.2.1 back.inserter 24.5.2.2.5 bad.alloc 18.6.2.1 bad.cast 18.7.2 bad.exception 18.8.2 bad.typeid 18.7.3 basefield.manip 27.5.6.3 basic 3 basic.align 3.11 basic.compound 3.9.2 basic.def 3.1 basic.def.odr 3.2 Cross references
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basic.fundamental 3.9.1 basic.funscope 3.3.5 basic.ios.cons 27.5.5.2 basic.ios.members 27.5.5.3 basic.life 3.8 basic.link 3.5 basic.lookup 3.4 basic.lookup.argdep 3.4.2 basic.lookup.classref 3.4.5 basic.lookup.elab 3.4.4 basic.lookup.qual 3.4.3 basic.lookup.udir 3.4.6 basic.lookup.unqual 3.4.1 basic.lval 3.10 basic.namespace 7.3 basic.scope 3.3 basic.scope.class 3.3.7 basic.scope.declarative 3.3.1 basic.scope.enum 3.3.8 basic.scope.hiding 3.3.10 basic.scope.local 3.3.3 basic.scope.namespace 3.3.6 basic.scope.pdecl 3.3.2 basic.scope.proto 3.3.4 basic.scope.temp 3.3.9 basic.start 3.6 basic.start.init 3.6.2 basic.start.main 3.6.1 basic.start.term 3.6.3 basic.stc 3.7 basic.stc.auto 3.7.3 basic.stc.dynamic 3.7.4 basic.stc.dynamic.allocation 3.7.4.1 basic.stc.dynamic.deallocation 3.7.4.2 basic.stc.dynamic.safety 3.7.4.3 basic.stc.inherit 3.7.5 basic.stc.static 3.7.1 basic.stc.thread 3.7.2 basic.string 21.4 basic.string.hash 21.6 basic.type.qualifier 3.9.3 basic.types 3.9 bidirectional.iterators 24.2.6 binary.search 25.4.3.4 bind 20.8.9 bitmask.types 17.5.2.1.3 bitset.cons 20.5.1 bitset.hash 20.5.3 bitset.members 20.5.2 bitset.operators 20.5.4 bitwise.operations 20.8.7 1224
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byte.strings
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17.5.2.1.4.1
C c.files 27.9.2 c.limits 18.3.3 c.locales 22.6 c.malloc 20.6.13 c.math 26.8 c.strings 21.7 category.collate 22.4.4 category.ctype 22.4.1 category.messages 22.4.7 category.monetary 22.4.6 category.numeric 22.4.2 category.time 22.4.5 ccmplx 26.4.10 cfenv 26.3 cfenv.syn 26.3.1 char.traits 21.2 char.traits.require 21.2.1 char.traits.specializations 21.2.3 char.traits.specializations.char 21.2.3.1 char.traits.specializations.char16_t 21.2.3.2 char.traits.specializations.char32_t 21.2.3.3 char.traits.specializations.wchar.t 21.2.3.4 char.traits.typedefs 21.2.2 character.seq 17.5.2.1.4 charname E charname.allowed E.1 charname.disallowed E.2 class 9 class.abstract 10.4 class.access 11 class.access.base 11.2 class.access.nest 11.7 class.access.spec 11.1 class.access.virt 11.5 class.base.init 12.6.2 class.bit 9.6 class.cdtor 12.7 class.conv 12.3 class.conv.ctor 12.3.1 class.conv.fct 12.3.2 class.copy 12.8 class.ctor 12.1 class.derived 10 class.dtor 12.4 class.expl.init 12.6.1 class.free 12.5 class.friend 11.3 class.gslice 26.6.6 Cross references
class.gslice.overview 26.6.6.1 class.inhctor 12.9 class.init 12.6 class.local 9.8 class.mem 9.2 class.member.lookup 10.2 class.mfct 9.3 class.mfct.non-static 9.3.1 class.mi 10.1 class.name 9.1 class.nest 9.7 class.nested.type 9.9 class.paths 11.6 class.protected 11.4 class.qual 3.4.3.1 class.slice 26.6.4 class.slice.overview 26.6.4.1 class.static 9.4 class.static.data 9.4.2 class.static.mfct 9.4.1 class.temporary 12.2 class.this 9.3.2 class.union 9.5 class.virtual 10.3 classification 22.3.3.1 cmplx.over 26.4.9 comparisons 20.8.5 complex 26.4.2 complex.member.ops 26.4.5 complex.members 26.4.4 complex.numbers 26.4 complex.ops 26.4.6 complex.special 26.4.3 complex.syn 26.4.1 complex.transcendentals 26.4.8 complex.value.ops 26.4.7 compliance 17.6.1.3 conforming 17.6.5 conforming.overview 17.6.5.1 cons.slice 26.6.4.2 constexpr.functions 17.6.5.6 constraints 17.6.4 constraints.overview 17.6.4.1 container.adaptors 23.6 container.adaptors.general 23.6.1 container.requirements 23.2 container.requirements.dataraces 23.2.2 container.requirements.general 23.2.1 containers 23 containers.general 23.1 contents 17.6.1.1 1225
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conv 4 conv.array 4.2 conv.bool 4.12 conv.double 4.8 conv.fpint 4.9 conv.fpprom 4.6 conv.func 4.3 conv.integral 4.7 conv.lval 4.1 conv.mem 4.11 conv.prom 4.5 conv.ptr 4.10 conv.qual 4.4 conv.rank 4.13 conventions 17.5.2 conversions 22.3.3.2 conversions.buffer 22.3.3.2.3 conversions.character 22.3.3.2.1 conversions.string 22.3.3.2.2 cpp 16 cpp.concat 16.3.3 cpp.cond 16.1 cpp.error 16.5 cpp.include 16.2 cpp.line 16.4 cpp.null 16.7 cpp.pragma 16.6 cpp.pragma.op 16.9 cpp.predefined 16.8 cpp.replace 16.3 cpp.rescan 16.3.4 cpp.scope 16.3.5 cpp.stringize 16.3.2 cpp.subst 16.3.1 cstdint 18.4 cstdint.syn 18.4.1 D date.time 20.11.8 dcl.align 7.6.2 dcl.ambig.res 8.2 dcl.array 8.3.4 dcl.asm 7.4 dcl.attr 7.6 dcl.attr.depend 7.6.4 dcl.attr.grammar 7.6.1 dcl.attr.noreturn 7.6.3 dcl.constexpr 7.1.5 dcl.dcl 7 dcl.decl 8 dcl.enum 7.2 Cross references
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dcl.fct 8.3.5 dcl.fct.def 8.4 dcl.fct.def.default 8.4.2 dcl.fct.def.delete 8.4.3 dcl.fct.def.general 8.4.1 dcl.fct.default 8.3.6 dcl.fct.spec 7.1.2 dcl.friend 7.1.4 dcl.init 8.5 dcl.init.aggr 8.5.1 dcl.init.list 8.5.4 dcl.init.ref 8.5.3 dcl.init.string 8.5.2 dcl.link 7.5 dcl.meaning 8.3 dcl.mptr 8.3.3 dcl.name 8.1 dcl.ptr 8.3.1 dcl.ref 8.3.2 dcl.spec 7.1 dcl.spec.auto 7.1.6.4 dcl.stc 7.1.1 dcl.type 7.1.6 dcl.type.cv 7.1.6.1 dcl.type.elab 7.1.6.3 dcl.type.simple 7.1.6.2 dcl.typedef 7.1.3 declval 20.2.4 default.allocator 20.6.9 definitions 17.3 defns.additional 17.4 defns.arbitrary.stream defns.argument defns.argument.macro defns.argument.templ defns.argument.throw defns.block defns.blocked defns.character defns.character.container defns.comparison defns.component defns.cond.supp defns.deadlock defns.default.behavior.func defns.default.behavior.impl defns.diagnostic defns.dynamic.type defns.dynamic.type.prvalue defns.handler defns.ill.formed 1226
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defns.impl.defined defns.impl.limits defns.iostream.templates defns.locale.specific defns.modifier defns.move.assign defns.move.constr defns.multibyte defns.ntcts defns.obj.state defns.observer defns.parameter defns.parameter.macro defns.parameter.templ defns.regex.collating.element defns.regex.finite.state.machine defns.regex.format.specifier defns.regex.matched defns.regex.primary.equivalence.class defns.regex.regular.expression defns.regex.subexpression defns.replacement defns.repositional.stream defns.required.behavior defns.reserved.function defns.signature defns.signature.member defns.signature.member.spec defns.signature.member.templ defns.signature.spec defns.signature.templ defns.stable defns.static.type defns.traits defns.unblock defns.undefined defns.unspecified defns.valid defns.well.formed denorm.style 18.3.2.6 depr D depr.adaptors D.8.2 depr.auto.ptr D.10 depr.base D.8.1 depr.c.headers D.5 depr.except.spec D.4 depr.function.objects D.8 depr.function.pointer.adaptors D.8.2.1 depr.impldec D.3 depr.incr.bool D.1 depr.ios.members D.6 Cross references
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depr.istrstream D.7.2 depr.istrstream.cons D.7.2.1 depr.istrstream.members D.7.2.2 depr.lib.bind.1st D.9.2 depr.lib.bind.2nd D.9.4 depr.lib.binder.1st D.9.1 depr.lib.binder.2nd D.9.3 depr.lib.binders D.9 depr.member.pointer.adaptors D.8.2.2 depr.ostrstream D.7.3 depr.ostrstream.cons D.7.3.1 depr.ostrstream.members D.7.3.2 depr.register D.2 depr.str.strstreams D.7 depr.strstream D.7.4 depr.strstream.cons D.7.4.1 depr.strstream.dest D.7.4.2 depr.strstream.oper D.7.4.3 depr.strstreambuf D.7.1 depr.strstreambuf.cons D.7.1.1 depr.strstreambuf.members D.7.1.2 depr.strstreambuf.virtuals D.7.1.3 deque 23.3.3 deque.capacity 23.3.3.3 deque.cons 23.3.3.2 deque.modifiers 23.3.3.4 deque.overview 23.3.3.1 deque.special 23.3.3.5 derivation 17.6.5.11 derived.classes 17.6.4.5 description 17.5 diagnostics 19 diagnostics.general 19.1 diff C diff.basic C.1.2 diff.char16 C.3.2.1 diff.class C.1.8 diff.conv C.1.3 diff.cpp C.1.10 diff.cpp03 C.2 diff.cpp03.algorithms C.2.13 diff.cpp03.containers C.2.12 diff.cpp03.dcl.dcl C.2.3 diff.cpp03.dcl.decl C.2.4 diff.cpp03.diagnostics C.2.9 diff.cpp03.expr C.2.2 diff.cpp03.input.output C.2.15 diff.cpp03.language.support C.2.8 diff.cpp03.lex C.2.1 diff.cpp03.library C.2.7 diff.cpp03.numerics C.2.14 1227
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diff.cpp03.special C.2.5 diff.cpp03.strings C.2.11 diff.cpp03.temp C.2.6 diff.cpp03.utilities C.2.10 diff.dcl C.1.6 diff.decl C.1.7 diff.expr C.1.4 diff.header.iso646.h C.3.2.3 diff.iso C.1 diff.lex C.1.1 diff.library C.3 diff.malloc C.3.4.2 diff.mods.to.behavior C.3.4 diff.mods.to.declarations C.3.3 diff.mods.to.definitions C.3.2 diff.mods.to.headers C.3.1 diff.null C.3.2.4 diff.offsetof C.3.4.1 diff.special C.1.9 diff.stat C.1.5 diff.wchar.t C.3.2.2 domain.error 19.2.2 E enumerated.types 17.5.2.1.2 equal.range 25.4.3.3 errno 19.4 error.reporting 27.5.6.5 except 15 except.ctor 15.2 except.handle 15.3 except.nested 18.8.6 except.spec 15.4 except.special 15.5 except.terminate 15.5.1 except.throw 15.1 except.uncaught 15.5.3 except.unexpected 15.5.2 exception 18.8.1 exception.terminate 18.8.3 exception.unexpected D.11 expr 5 expr.add 5.7 expr.alignof 5.3.6 expr.ass 5.17 expr.bit.and 5.11 expr.call 5.2.2 expr.cast 5.4 expr.comma 5.18 expr.cond 5.16 expr.const 5.19 Cross references
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expr.const.cast 5.2.11 expr.delete 5.3.5 expr.dynamic.cast 5.2.7 expr.eq 5.10 expr.log.and 5.14 expr.log.or 5.15 expr.mptr.oper 5.5 expr.mul 5.6 expr.new 5.3.4 expr.or 5.13 expr.post 5.2 expr.post.incr 5.2.6 expr.pre.incr 5.3.2 expr.prim 5.1 expr.prim.general 5.1.1 expr.prim.lambda 5.1.2 expr.pseudo 5.2.4 expr.ref 5.2.5 expr.reinterpret.cast 5.2.10 expr.rel 5.9 expr.shift 5.8 expr.sizeof 5.3.3 expr.static.cast 5.2.9 expr.sub 5.2.1 expr.type.conv 5.2.3 expr.typeid 5.2.8 expr.unary 5.3 expr.unary.noexcept 5.3.7 expr.unary.op 5.3.1 expr.xor 5.12 ext.manip 27.7.5 extern.names 17.6.4.3.3 extern.types 17.6.4.3.4 F facet.ctype.char.dtor 22.4.1.3.1 facet.ctype.char.members 22.4.1.3.2 facet.ctype.char.statics 22.4.1.3.3 facet.ctype.char.virtuals 22.4.1.3.4 facet.ctype.special 22.4.1.3 facet.num.get.members 22.4.2.1.1 facet.num.get.virtuals 22.4.2.1.2 facet.num.put.members 22.4.2.2.1 facet.num.put.virtuals 22.4.2.2.2 facet.numpunct 22.4.3 facet.numpunct.members 22.4.3.1.1 facet.numpunct.virtuals 22.4.3.1.2 facets.examples 22.4.8 file.streams 27.9 filebuf 27.9.1.1 filebuf.assign 27.9.1.3 1228
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filebuf.cons 27.9.1.2 filebuf.members 27.9.1.4 filebuf.virtuals 27.9.1.5 floatfield.manip 27.5.6.4 fmtflags.manip 27.5.6.1 fmtflags.state 27.5.3.2 forward 20.2.3 forward.iterators 24.2.5 forwardlist 23.3.4 forwardlist.access 23.3.4.4 forwardlist.cons 23.3.4.2 forwardlist.iter 23.3.4.3 forwardlist.modifiers 23.3.4.5 forwardlist.ops 23.3.4.6 forwardlist.overview 23.3.4.1 forwardlist.spec 23.3.4.7 fpos 27.5.4 fpos.members 27.5.4.1 fpos.operations 27.5.4.2 front.insert.iter.cons 24.5.2.4.1 front.insert.iter.op* 24.5.2.4.3 front.insert.iter.op++ 24.5.2.4.4 front.insert.iter.op= 24.5.2.4.2 front.insert.iter.ops 24.5.2.4 front.insert.iterator 24.5.2.3 front.inserter 24.5.2.4.5 fstream 27.9.1.14 fstream.assign 27.9.1.16 fstream.cons 27.9.1.15 fstream.members 27.9.1.17 fstreams 27.9.1 func.bind 20.8.9.1 func.bind.bind 20.8.9.1.3 func.bind.isbind 20.8.9.1.1 func.bind.place 20.8.9.1.4 func.def 20.8.1 func.memfn 20.8.10 func.require 20.8.2 func.wrap 20.8.11 func.wrap.badcall 20.8.11.1 func.wrap.badcall.const 20.8.11.1.1 func.wrap.func 20.8.11.2 func.wrap.func.alg 20.8.11.2.7 func.wrap.func.cap 20.8.11.2.3 func.wrap.func.con 20.8.11.2.1 func.wrap.func.inv 20.8.11.2.4 func.wrap.func.mod 20.8.11.2.2 func.wrap.func.nullptr 20.8.11.2.6 func.wrap.func.targ 20.8.11.2.5 function.objects 20.8 functions.within.classes 17.5.2.2 Cross references
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futures 30.6 futures.async 30.6.8 futures.errors 30.6.2 futures.future_error 30.6.3 futures.overview 30.6.1 futures.promise 30.6.5 futures.shared_future 30.6.7 futures.state 30.6.4 futures.task 30.6.9 futures.task.members 30.6.9.1 futures.task.nonmembers 30.6.9.2 futures.unique_future 30.6.6 G get.new.handler 18.6.2.5 get.terminate 18.8.3.3 get.unexpected D.11.3 global.functions 17.6.5.4 global.names 17.6.4.3.2 gram A gram.basic A.3 gram.class A.8 gram.cpp A.14 gram.dcl A.6 gram.decl A.7 gram.derived A.9 gram.except A.13 gram.expr A.4 gram.key A.1 gram.lex A.2 gram.over A.11 gram.special A.10 gram.stmt A.5 gram.temp A.12 gslice.access 26.6.6.3 gslice.array.assign 26.6.7.2 gslice.array.comp.assign 26.6.7.3 gslice.array.fill 26.6.7.4 gslice.cons 26.6.6.2 H handler.functions 17.6.4.7 hash.requirements 17.6.3.4 headers 17.6.1.2 I ifstream 27.9.1.6 ifstream.assign 27.9.1.8 ifstream.cons 27.9.1.7 ifstream.members 27.9.1.9 implimits B 1229
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includes 25.4.5.1 indirect.array.assign 26.6.9.2 indirect.array.comp.assign 26.6.9.3 indirect.array.fill 26.6.9.4 inner.product 26.7.3 input.iterators 24.2.3 input.output 27 input.output.general 27.1 input.streams 27.7.2 insert.iter.cons 24.5.2.6.1 insert.iter.op* 24.5.2.6.3 insert.iter.op++ 24.5.2.6.4 insert.iter.op= 24.5.2.6.2 insert.iter.ops 24.5.2.6 insert.iterator 24.5.2.5 insert.iterators 24.5.2 inserter 24.5.2.6.5 intro 1 intro.ack 1.11 intro.compliance 1.4 intro.defs 1.3 intro.execution 1.9 intro.memory 1.7 intro.multithread 1.10 intro.object 1.8 intro.refs 1.2 intro.scope 1.1 intro.structure 1.5 invalid.argument 19.2.3 ios 27.5.5 ios.base 27.5.3 ios.base.callback 27.5.3.6 ios.base.cons 27.5.3.7 ios.base.locales 27.5.3.3 ios.base.storage 27.5.3.5 ios.members.static 27.5.3.4 ios.overview 27.5.5.1 ios.types 27.5.3.1 ios::failure 27.5.3.1.1 ios::fmtflags 27.5.3.1.2 ios::Init 27.5.3.1.6 ios::iostate 27.5.3.1.3 ios::openmode 27.5.3.1.4 ios::seekdir 27.5.3.1.5 iostate.flags 27.5.5.4 iostream.assign 27.7.2.5.3 iostream.cons 27.7.2.5.1 iostream.dest 27.7.2.5.2 iostream.format 27.7 iostream.format.overview 27.7.1 iostream.forward 27.3 Cross references
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iostream.limits.imbue 27.2.1 iostream.objects 27.4 iostream.objects.overview 27.4.1 iostreamclass 27.7.2.5 iostreams.base 27.5 iostreams.base.overview 27.5.1 iostreams.limits.pos 27.2.2 iostreams.requirements 27.2 iostreams.threadsafety 27.2.3 is.heap 25.4.6.5 is.sorted 25.4.1.5 istream 27.7.2.1 istream.assign 27.7.2.1.2 istream.cons 27.7.2.1.1 istream.formatted 27.7.2.2 istream.formatted.arithmetic 27.7.2.2.2 istream.formatted.reqmts 27.7.2.2.1 istream.iterator 24.6.1 istream.iterator.cons 24.6.1.1 istream.iterator.ops 24.6.1.2 istream.manip 27.7.2.4 istream.rvalue 27.7.2.6 istream.unformatted 27.7.2.3 istream::extractors 27.7.2.2.3 istream::sentry 27.7.2.1.3 istreambuf.iterator 24.6.3 istreambuf.iterator.cons 24.6.3.2 istreambuf.iterator::equal 24.6.3.5 istreambuf.iterator::op!= 24.6.3.7 istreambuf.iterator::op* 24.6.3.3 istreambuf.iterator::op++ 24.6.3.4 istreambuf.iterator::op== 24.6.3.6 istreambuf.iterator::proxy 24.6.3.1 istringstream 27.8.3 istringstream.assign 27.8.3.2 istringstream.cons 27.8.3.1 istringstream.members 27.8.3.3 iterator.basic 24.4.2 iterator.iterators 24.2.2 iterator.operations 24.4.4 iterator.primitives 24.4 iterator.range 24.7 iterator.requirements 24.2 iterator.requirements.general 24.2.1 iterator.synopsis 24.3 iterator.traits 24.4.1 iterators 24 iterators.general 24.1 J K 1230
c ISO/IEC
L length.error 19.2.4 lex 2 lex.bool 2.14.6 lex.ccon 2.14.3 lex.charset 2.3 lex.comment 2.8 lex.digraph 2.6 lex.ext 2.14.8 lex.fcon 2.14.4 lex.header 2.9 lex.icon 2.14.2 lex.key 2.12 lex.literal 2.14 lex.literal.kinds 2.14.1 lex.name 2.11 lex.nullptr 2.14.7 lex.operators 2.13 lex.phases 2.2 lex.ppnumber 2.10 lex.pptoken 2.5 lex.separate 2.1 lex.string 2.14.5 lex.token 2.7 lex.trigraph 2.4 lib.types.movedfrom 17.6.5.15 library 17 library.c 17.2 library.general 17.1 limits 18.3.2 limits.numeric 18.3.2.1 limits.syn 18.3.2.2 list 23.3.5 list.capacity 23.3.5.3 list.cons 23.3.5.2 list.modifiers 23.3.5.4 list.ops 23.3.5.5 list.overview 23.3.5.1 list.special 23.3.5.6 locale 22.3.1 locale.categories 22.4 locale.category 22.3.1.1.1 locale.codecvt 22.4.1.4 locale.codecvt.byname 22.4.1.5 locale.codecvt.members 22.4.1.4.1 locale.codecvt.virtuals 22.4.1.4.2 locale.collate 22.4.4.1 locale.collate.byname 22.4.4.2 locale.collate.members 22.4.4.1.1 locale.collate.virtuals 22.4.4.1.2 locale.cons 22.3.1.2 Cross references
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locale.convenience 22.3.3 locale.ctype 22.4.1.1 locale.ctype.byname 22.4.1.2 locale.ctype.members 22.4.1.1.1 locale.ctype.virtuals 22.4.1.1.2 locale.facet 22.3.1.1.2 locale.global.templates 22.3.2 locale.id 22.3.1.1.3 locale.members 22.3.1.3 locale.messages 22.4.7.1 locale.messages.byname 22.4.7.2 locale.messages.members 22.4.7.1.1 locale.messages.virtuals 22.4.7.1.2 locale.money.get 22.4.6.1 locale.money.get.members 22.4.6.1.1 locale.money.get.virtuals 22.4.6.1.2 locale.money.put 22.4.6.2 locale.money.put.members 22.4.6.2.1 locale.money.put.virtuals 22.4.6.2.2 locale.moneypunct 22.4.6.3 locale.moneypunct.byname 22.4.6.4 locale.moneypunct.members 22.4.6.3.1 locale.moneypunct.virtuals 22.4.6.3.2 locale.nm.put 22.4.2.2 locale.num.get 22.4.2.1 locale.numpunct 22.4.3.1 locale.numpunct.byname 22.4.3.2 locale.operators 22.3.1.4 locale.statics 22.3.1.5 locale.stdcvt 22.5 locale.syn 22.2 locale.time.get 22.4.5.1 locale.time.get.byname 22.4.5.2 locale.time.get.members 22.4.5.1.1 locale.time.get.virtuals 22.4.5.1.2 locale.time.put 22.4.5.3 locale.time.put.byname 22.4.5.4 locale.time.put.members 22.4.5.3.1 locale.time.put.virtuals 22.4.5.3.2 locale.types 22.3.1.1 locales 22.3 localization 22 localization.general 22.1 logic.error 19.2.1 logical.operations 20.8.6 lower.bound 25.4.3.1 M macro.names 17.6.4.3.1 make.heap 25.4.6.3 map 23.4.4 1231
c ISO/IEC
map.access 23.4.4.3 map.cons 23.4.4.2 map.modifiers 23.4.4.4 map.ops 23.4.4.5 map.overview 23.4.4.1 map.special 23.4.4.6 mask.array.assign 26.6.8.2 mask.array.comp.assign 26.6.8.3 mask.array.fill 26.6.8.4 member.functions 17.6.5.5 memory 20.6 memory.general 20.6.1 memory.syn 20.6.2 meta 20.9 meta.help 20.9.3 meta.rel 20.9.6 meta.rqmts 20.9.1 meta.trans 20.9.7 meta.trans.arr 20.9.7.4 meta.trans.cv 20.9.7.1 meta.trans.other 20.9.7.6 meta.trans.ptr 20.9.7.5 meta.trans.ref 20.9.7.2 meta.trans.sign 20.9.7.3 meta.type.synop 20.9.2 meta.unary 20.9.4 meta.unary.cat 20.9.4.1 meta.unary.comp 20.9.4.2 meta.unary.prop 20.9.4.3 meta.unary.prop.query 20.9.5 mismatch 25.2.10 move.iter.nonmember 24.5.3.3.14 move.iter.op.+ 24.5.3.3.8 move.iter.op.+= 24.5.3.3.9 move.iter.op.- 24.5.3.3.10 move.iter.op.-= 24.5.3.3.11 move.iter.op.comp 24.5.3.3.13 move.iter.op.const 24.5.3.3.1 move.iter.op.conv 24.5.3.3.3 move.iter.op.decr 24.5.3.3.7 move.iter.op.incr 24.5.3.3.6 move.iter.op.index 24.5.3.3.12 move.iter.op.ref 24.5.3.3.5 move.iter.op.star 24.5.3.3.4 move.iter.op= 24.5.3.3.2 move.iter.ops 24.5.3.3 move.iter.requirements 24.5.3.2 move.iterator 24.5.3.1 move.iterators 24.5.3 multibyte.strings 17.5.2.1.4.2 multimap 23.4.5 Cross references
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multimap.cons 23.4.5.2 multimap.modifiers 23.4.5.3 multimap.ops 23.4.5.4 multimap.overview 23.4.5.1 multimap.special 23.4.5.5 multiset 23.4.7 multiset.cons 23.4.7.2 multiset.overview 23.4.7.1 multiset.special 23.4.7.3 N namespace.alias 7.3.2 namespace.constraints 17.6.4.2 namespace.def 7.3.1 namespace.memdef 7.3.1.2 namespace.posix 17.6.4.2.2 namespace.qual 3.4.3.2 namespace.std 17.6.4.2.1 namespace.udecl 7.3.3 namespace.udir 7.3.4 namespace.unnamed 7.3.1.1 narrow.stream.objects 27.4.2 negators 20.8.8 new.badlength 18.6.2.2 new.delete 18.6.1 new.delete.array 18.6.1.2 new.delete.dataraces 18.6.1.4 new.delete.placement 18.6.1.3 new.delete.single 18.6.1.1 new.handler 18.6.2.3 nullablepointer.requirements 17.6.3.3 numarray 26.6 numeric.iota 26.7.6 numeric.limits 18.3.2.3 numeric.limits.members 18.3.2.4 numeric.ops 26.7 numeric.ops.overview 26.7.1 numeric.requirements 26.2 numeric.special 18.3.2.7 numerics 26 numerics.general 26.1 O objects.within.classes 17.5.2.3 ofstream 27.9.1.10 ofstream.assign 27.9.1.12 ofstream.cons 27.9.1.11 ofstream.members 27.9.1.13 operators 20.2.1 organization 17.6.1 ostream 27.7.3.1 1232
c ISO/IEC
ostream.assign 27.7.3.3 ostream.cons 27.7.3.2 ostream.formatted 27.7.3.6 ostream.formatted.reqmts 27.7.3.6.1 ostream.inserters 27.7.3.6.3 ostream.inserters.arithmetic 27.7.3.6.2 ostream.inserters.character 27.7.3.6.4 ostream.iterator 24.6.2 ostream.iterator.cons.des 24.6.2.1 ostream.iterator.ops 24.6.2.2 ostream.manip 27.7.3.8 ostream.rvalue 27.7.3.9 ostream.seeks 27.7.3.5 ostream.unformatted 27.7.3.7 ostream::sentry 27.7.3.4 ostreambuf.iter.cons 24.6.4.1 ostreambuf.iter.ops 24.6.4.2 ostreambuf.iterator 24.6.4 ostringstream 27.8.4 ostringstream.assign 27.8.4.2 ostringstream.cons 27.8.4.1 ostringstream.members 27.8.4.3 out.of.range 19.2.5 output.iterators 24.2.4 output.streams 27.7.3 over 13 over.ass 13.5.3 over.best.ics 13.3.3.1 over.binary 13.5.2 over.built 13.6 over.call 13.5.4 over.call.func 13.3.1.1.1 over.call.object 13.3.1.1.2 over.dcl 13.2 over.ics.ellipsis 13.3.3.1.3 over.ics.list 13.3.3.1.5 over.ics.rank 13.3.3.2 over.ics.ref 13.3.3.1.4 over.ics.scs 13.3.3.1.1 over.ics.user 13.3.3.1.2 over.inc 13.5.7 over.literal 13.5.8 over.load 13.1 over.match 13.3 over.match.best 13.3.3 over.match.call 13.3.1.1 over.match.conv 13.3.1.5 over.match.copy 13.3.1.4 over.match.ctor 13.3.1.3 over.match.funcs 13.3.1 over.match.list 13.3.1.7 Cross references
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over.match.oper 13.3.1.2 over.match.ref 13.3.1.6 over.match.viable 13.3.2 over.oper 13.5 over.over 13.4 over.ref 13.5.6 over.sub 13.5.5 over.unary 13.5.1 overflow.error 19.2.8 P pair.astuple 20.3.4 pair.piecewise 20.3.5 pairs 20.3 pairs.general 20.3.1 pairs.pair 20.3.2 pairs.spec 20.3.3 partial.sort 25.4.1.3 partial.sort.copy 25.4.1.4 partial.sum 26.7.4 pointer.traits 20.6.3 pointer.traits.functions 20.6.3.2 pointer.traits.types 20.6.3.1 pop.heap 25.4.6.2 predef.iterators 24.5 priority.queue 23.6.4 priqueue.cons 23.6.4.1 priqueue.cons.alloc 23.6.4.2 priqueue.members 23.6.4.3 priqueue.special 23.6.4.4 propagation 18.8.5 protection.within.classes 17.6.5.10 ptr.align 20.6.5 push.heap 25.4.6.1 Q queue 23.6.3 queue.cons 23.6.3.2 queue.cons.alloc 23.6.3.3 queue.defn 23.6.3.1 queue.ops 23.6.3.4 queue.special 23.6.3.5 queue.syn 23.6.2 R rand 26.5 rand.adapt 26.5.4 rand.adapt.disc 26.5.4.2 rand.adapt.general 26.5.4.1 rand.adapt.ibits 26.5.4.3 rand.adapt.shuf 26.5.4.4 1233
c ISO/IEC
rand.device 26.5.6 rand.dist 26.5.8 rand.dist.bern 26.5.8.3 rand.dist.bern.bernoulli 26.5.8.3.1 rand.dist.bern.bin 26.5.8.3.2 rand.dist.bern.geo 26.5.8.3.3 rand.dist.bern.negbin 26.5.8.3.4 rand.dist.general 26.5.8.1 rand.dist.norm 26.5.8.5 rand.dist.norm.cauchy 26.5.8.5.4 rand.dist.norm.chisq 26.5.8.5.3 rand.dist.norm.f 26.5.8.5.5 rand.dist.norm.lognormal 26.5.8.5.2 rand.dist.norm.normal 26.5.8.5.1 rand.dist.norm.t 26.5.8.5.6 rand.dist.pois 26.5.8.4 rand.dist.pois.exp 26.5.8.4.2 rand.dist.pois.extreme 26.5.8.4.5 rand.dist.pois.gamma 26.5.8.4.3 rand.dist.pois.poisson 26.5.8.4.1 rand.dist.pois.weibull 26.5.8.4.4 rand.dist.samp 26.5.8.6 rand.dist.samp.discrete 26.5.8.6.1 rand.dist.samp.pconst 26.5.8.6.2 rand.dist.samp.plinear 26.5.8.6.3 rand.dist.uni 26.5.8.2 rand.dist.uni.int 26.5.8.2.1 rand.dist.uni.real 26.5.8.2.2 rand.eng 26.5.3 rand.eng.lcong 26.5.3.1 rand.eng.mers 26.5.3.2 rand.eng.sub 26.5.3.3 rand.predef 26.5.5 rand.req 26.5.1 rand.req.adapt 26.5.1.5 rand.req.dist 26.5.1.6 rand.req.eng 26.5.1.4 rand.req.genl 26.5.1.1 rand.req.seedseq 26.5.1.2 rand.req.urng 26.5.1.3 rand.synopsis 26.5.2 rand.util 26.5.7 rand.util.canonical 26.5.7.2 rand.util.seedseq 26.5.7.1 random.access.iterators 24.2.7 range.error 19.2.7 ratio 20.10 ratio.arithmetic 20.10.4 ratio.comparison 20.10.5 ratio.general 20.10.1 ratio.ratio 20.10.3 Cross references
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ratio.si 20.10.6 ratio.syn 20.10.2 re 28 re.alg 28.11 re.alg.match 28.11.2 re.alg.replace 28.11.4 re.alg.search 28.11.3 re.badexp 28.6 re.const 28.5 re.def 28.2 re.err 28.5.3 re.except 28.11.1 re.general 28.1 re.grammar 28.13 re.iter 28.12 re.matchflag 28.5.2 re.regex 28.8 re.regex.assign 28.8.3 re.regex.const 28.8.1 re.regex.construct 28.8.2 re.regex.locale 28.8.5 re.regex.nmswap 28.8.7.1 re.regex.nonmemb 28.8.7 re.regex.operations 28.8.4 re.regex.swap 28.8.6 re.regiter 28.12.1 re.regiter.cnstr 28.12.1.1 re.regiter.comp 28.12.1.2 re.regiter.deref 28.12.1.3 re.regiter.incr 28.12.1.4 re.req 28.3 re.results 28.10 re.results.acc 28.10.4 re.results.all 28.10.6 re.results.const 28.10.1 re.results.form 28.10.5 re.results.nonmember 28.10.8 re.results.size 28.10.3 re.results.state 28.10.2 re.results.swap 28.10.7 re.submatch 28.9 re.submatch.members 28.9.1 re.submatch.op 28.9.2 re.syn 28.4 re.synopt 28.5.1 re.tokiter 28.12.2 re.tokiter.cnstr 28.12.2.1 re.tokiter.comp 28.12.2.2 re.tokiter.deref 28.12.2.3 re.tokiter.incr 28.12.2.4 re.traits 28.7 1234
c ISO/IEC
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reentrancy 17.6.5.8 refwrap 20.8.3 refwrap.access 20.8.3.3 refwrap.assign 20.8.3.2 refwrap.const 20.8.3.1 refwrap.helpers 20.8.3.5 refwrap.invoke 20.8.3.4 replacement.functions 17.6.4.6 requirements 17.6 res.on.arguments 17.6.4.9 res.on.data.races 17.6.5.9 res.on.exception.handling 17.6.5.12 res.on.functions 17.6.4.8 res.on.headers 17.6.5.2 res.on.macro.definitions 17.6.5.3 res.on.objects 17.6.4.10 res.on.pointer.storage 17.6.5.13 res.on.required 17.6.4.11 reserved.names 17.6.4.3 reverse.iter.cons 24.5.1.3.1 reverse.iter.conv 24.5.1.3.3 reverse.iter.op!= 24.5.1.3.15 reverse.iter.op+ 24.5.1.3.8 reverse.iter.op++ 24.5.1.3.6 reverse.iter.op+= 24.5.1.3.9 reverse.iter.op- 24.5.1.3.10 reverse.iter.op-= 24.5.1.3.11 reverse.iter.op.star 24.5.1.3.4 reverse.iter.op< 24.5.1.3.14 reverse.iter.op 24.5.1.3.16 reverse.iter.op>= 24.5.1.3.17 reverse.iter.opdiff 24.5.1.3.19 reverse.iter.opindex 24.5.1.3.12 reverse.iter.opref 24.5.1.3.5 reverse.iter.ops 24.5.1.3 reverse.iter.opsum 24.5.1.3.20 reverse.iter.op-- 24.5.1.3.7 reverse.iter.requirements 24.5.1.2 reverse.iterator 24.5.1.1 reverse.iterators 24.5.1 round.style 18.3.2.5 runtime.error 19.2.6 S scoped.adaptor.operators sequence.reqmts 23.2.3 sequences 23.3 sequences.general 23.3.1 Cross references
20.12.5
set 23.4.6 set.cons 23.4.6.2 set.difference 25.4.5.4 set.intersection 25.4.5.3 set.new.handler 18.6.2.4 set.overview 23.4.6.1 set.special 23.4.6.3 set.symmetric.difference 25.4.5.5 set.terminate 18.8.3.2 set.unexpected D.11.2 set.union 25.4.5.2 slice.access 26.6.4.3 slice.arr.assign 26.6.5.2 slice.arr.comp.assign 26.6.5.3 slice.arr.fill 26.6.5.4 smartptr 20.7 sort 25.4.1.1 sort.heap 25.4.6.4 special 12 specialized.addressof 20.6.12.1 specialized.algorithms 20.6.12 stable.sort 25.4.1.2 stack 23.6.5 stack.cons 23.6.5.3 stack.cons.alloc 23.6.5.4 stack.defn 23.6.5.2 stack.ops 23.6.5.5 stack.special 23.6.5.6 stack.syn 23.6.5.1 std.exceptions 19.2 std.ios.manip 27.5.6 std.iterator.tags 24.4.3 std.manip 27.7.4 stmt.ambig 6.8 stmt.block 6.3 stmt.break 6.6.1 stmt.cont 6.6.2 stmt.dcl 6.7 stmt.do 6.5.2 stmt.expr 6.2 stmt.for 6.5.3 stmt.goto 6.6.4 stmt.if 6.4.1 stmt.iter 6.5 stmt.jump 6.6 stmt.label 6.1 stmt.ranged 6.5.4 stmt.return 6.6.3 stmt.select 6.4 stmt.stmt 6 stmt.switch 6.4.2 1235
c ISO/IEC
stmt.while 6.5.1 storage.iterator 20.6.10 stream.buffers 27.6 stream.buffers.overview 27.6.1 stream.iterators 24.6 stream.types 27.5.2 streambuf 27.6.3 streambuf.assign 27.6.3.3.1 streambuf.buffer 27.6.3.2.2 streambuf.cons 27.6.3.1 streambuf.get.area 27.6.3.3.2 streambuf.locales 27.6.3.2.1 streambuf.members 27.6.3.2 streambuf.protected 27.6.3.3 streambuf.pub.get 27.6.3.2.3 streambuf.pub.pback 27.6.3.2.4 streambuf.pub.put 27.6.3.2.5 streambuf.put.area 27.6.3.3.3 streambuf.reqts 27.6.2 streambuf.virt.buffer 27.6.3.4.2 streambuf.virt.get 27.6.3.4.3 streambuf.virt.locales 27.6.3.4.1 streambuf.virt.pback 27.6.3.4.4 streambuf.virt.put 27.6.3.4.5 streambuf.virtuals 27.6.3.4 string.access 21.4.5 string.accessors 21.4.7.1 string.capacity 21.4.4 string.classes 21.3 string.cons 21.4.2 string.conversions 21.5 string.io 21.4.8.9 string.iterators 21.4.3 string.modifiers 21.4.6 string.nonmembers 21.4.8 string.ops 21.4.7 string.require 21.4.1 string.special 21.4.8.8 string.streams 27.8 string.streams.overview 27.8.1 string::append 21.4.6.2 string::assign 21.4.6.3 string::compare 21.4.7.9 string::copy 21.4.6.7 string::erase 21.4.6.5 string::find 21.4.7.2 string::find.first.not.of 21.4.7.6 string::find.first.of 21.4.7.4 string::find.last.not.of 21.4.7.7 string::find.last.of 21.4.7.5 string::insert 21.4.6.4 Cross references
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string::op!= 21.4.8.3 string::op+ 21.4.8.1 string::op+= 21.4.6.1 string::op< 21.4.8.4 string::op 21.4.8.5 string::op>= 21.4.8.7 string::operator== 21.4.8.2 string::replace 21.4.6.6 string::rfind 21.4.7.3 string::substr 21.4.7.8 string::swap 21.4.6.8 stringbuf 27.8.2 stringbuf.assign 27.8.2.2 stringbuf.cons 27.8.2.1 stringbuf.members 27.8.2.3 stringbuf.virtuals 27.8.2.4 strings 21 strings.general 21.1 stringstream 27.8.5 stringstream.assign 27.8.6.1 stringstream.cons 27.8.6 stringstream.members 27.8.7 structure 17.5.1 structure.elements 17.5.1.1 structure.requirements 17.5.1.3 structure.see.also 17.5.1.5 structure.specifications 17.5.1.4 structure.summary 17.5.1.2 support.dynamic 18.6 support.exception 18.8 support.general 18.1 support.initlist 18.9 support.initlist.access 18.9.2 support.initlist.cons 18.9.1 support.initlist.range 18.9.3 support.limits 18.3 support.limits.general 18.3.1 support.rtti 18.7 support.runtime 18.10 support.start.term 18.5 support.types 18.2 swappable.requirements 17.6.3.2 syntax 1.6 syserr 19.5 syserr.compare 19.5.4 syserr.errcat 19.5.1 syserr.errcat.derived 19.5.1.4 syserr.errcat.nonvirtuals 19.5.1.3 syserr.errcat.objects 19.5.1.5 syserr.errcat.overview 19.5.1.1 1236
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syserr.errcat.virtuals 19.5.1.2 syserr.errcode 19.5.2 syserr.errcode.constructors 19.5.2.2 syserr.errcode.modifiers 19.5.2.3 syserr.errcode.nonmembers 19.5.2.5 syserr.errcode.observers 19.5.2.4 syserr.errcode.overview 19.5.2.1 syserr.errcondition 19.5.3 syserr.errcondition.constructors 19.5.3.2 syserr.errcondition.modifiers 19.5.3.3 syserr.errcondition.nonmembers 19.5.3.5 syserr.errcondition.observers 19.5.3.4 syserr.errcondition.overview 19.5.3.1 syserr.hash 19.5.5 syserr.syserr 19.5.6 syserr.syserr.members 19.5.6.2 syserr.syserr.overview 19.5.6.1 T temp 14 temp.alias 14.5.7 temp.arg 14.3 temp.arg.explicit 14.8.1 temp.arg.nontype 14.3.2 temp.arg.template 14.3.3 temp.arg.type 14.3.1 temp.class 14.5.1 temp.class.order 14.5.5.2 temp.class.spec 14.5.5 temp.class.spec.match 14.5.5.1 temp.class.spec.mfunc 14.5.5.3 temp.decls 14.5 temp.deduct 14.8.2 temp.deduct.call 14.8.2.1 temp.deduct.conv 14.8.2.3 temp.deduct.decl 14.8.2.6 temp.deduct.funcaddr 14.8.2.2 temp.deduct.partial 14.8.2.4 temp.deduct.type 14.8.2.5 temp.dep 14.6.2 temp.dep.candidate 14.6.4.2 temp.dep.constexpr 14.6.2.3 temp.dep.expr 14.6.2.2 temp.dep.res 14.6.4 temp.dep.temp 14.6.2.4 temp.dep.type 14.6.2.1 temp.expl.spec 14.7.3 temp.explicit 14.7.2 temp.fct 14.5.6 temp.fct.spec 14.8 temp.friend 14.5.4 Cross references
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temp.func.order 14.5.6.2 temp.inject 14.6.5 temp.inst 14.7.1 temp.local 14.6.1 temp.mem 14.5.2 temp.mem.class 14.5.1.2 temp.mem.enum 14.5.1.4 temp.mem.func 14.5.1.1 temp.names 14.2 temp.nondep 14.6.3 temp.over 14.8.3 temp.over.link 14.5.6.1 temp.param 14.1 temp.point 14.6.4.1 temp.res 14.6 temp.spec 14.7 temp.static 14.5.1.3 temp.type 14.4 temp.variadic 14.5.3 template.bitset 20.5 template.gslice.array 26.6.7 template.gslice.array.overview 26.6.7.1 template.indirect.array 26.6.9 template.indirect.array.overview 26.6.9.1 template.mask.array 26.6.8 template.mask.array.overview 26.6.8.1 template.slice.array 26.6.5 template.slice.array.overview 26.6.5.1 template.valarray 26.6.2 template.valarray.overview 26.6.2.1 temporary.buffer 20.6.11 terminate 18.8.3.4 terminate.handler 18.8.3.1 thread 30 thread.condition 30.5 thread.condition.condvar 30.5.1 thread.condition.condvarany 30.5.2 thread.decaycopy 30.2.6 thread.general 30.1 thread.lock 30.4.2 thread.lock.algorithm 30.4.3 thread.lock.guard 30.4.2.1 thread.lock.unique 30.4.2.2 thread.lock.unique.cons 30.4.2.2.1 thread.lock.unique.locking 30.4.2.2.2 thread.lock.unique.mod 30.4.2.2.3 thread.lock.unique.obs 30.4.2.2.4 thread.mutex 30.4 thread.mutex.class 30.4.1.2.1 thread.mutex.recursive 30.4.1.2.2 thread.mutex.requirements 30.4.1 1237
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thread.mutex.requirements.general 30.4.1.1 thread.mutex.requirements.mutex 30.4.1.2 thread.once 30.4.4 thread.once.callonce 30.4.4.2 thread.once.onceflag 30.4.4.1 thread.req 30.2 thread.req.exception 30.2.2 thread.req.lockable 30.2.5 thread.req.lockable.basic 30.2.5.2 thread.req.lockable.general 30.2.5.1 thread.req.lockable.req 30.2.5.3 thread.req.lockable.timed 30.2.5.4 thread.req.native 30.2.3 thread.req.paramname 30.2.1 thread.req.timing 30.2.4 thread.thread.algorithm 30.3.1.7 thread.thread.assign 30.3.1.4 thread.thread.class 30.3.1 thread.thread.constr 30.3.1.2 thread.thread.destr 30.3.1.3 thread.thread.id 30.3.1.1 thread.thread.member 30.3.1.5 thread.thread.static 30.3.1.6 thread.thread.this 30.3.2 thread.threads 30.3 thread.timedmutex.class 30.4.1.3.1 thread.timedmutex.recursive 30.4.1.3.2 thread.timedmutex.requirements 30.4.1.3 time 20.11 time.clock 20.11.7 time.clock.hires 20.11.7.3 time.clock.req 20.11.3 time.clock.steady 20.11.7.2 time.clock.system 20.11.7.1 time.duration 20.11.5 time.duration.arithmetic 20.11.5.3 time.duration.cast 20.11.5.7 time.duration.comparisons 20.11.5.6 time.duration.cons 20.11.5.1 time.duration.nonmember 20.11.5.5 time.duration.observer 20.11.5.2 time.duration.special 20.11.5.4 time.general 20.11.1 time.point 20.11.6 time.point.arithmetic 20.11.6.3 time.point.cast 20.11.6.7 time.point.comparisons 20.11.6.6 time.point.cons 20.11.6.1 time.point.nonmember 20.11.6.5 time.point.observer 20.11.6.2 time.point.special 20.11.6.4 Cross references
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time.syn 20.11.2 time.traits 20.11.4 time.traits.duration_values 20.11.4.2 time.traits.is_fp 20.11.4.1 time.traits.specializations 20.11.4.3 tuple 20.4 tuple.assign 20.4.2.2 tuple.cnstr 20.4.2.1 tuple.creation 20.4.2.4 tuple.elem 20.4.2.6 tuple.general 20.4.1 tuple.helper 20.4.2.5 tuple.rel 20.4.2.7 tuple.special 20.4.2.9 tuple.swap 20.4.2.3 tuple.traits 20.4.2.8 tuple.tuple 20.4.2 type.descriptions 17.5.2.1 type.descriptions.general 17.5.2.1.1 type.index 20.13 type.index.hash 20.13.4 type.index.members 20.13.3 type.index.overview 20.13.2 type.index.synopsis 20.13.1 type.info 18.7.1 U uncaught 18.8.4 underflow.error 19.2.9 unexpected D.11.4 unexpected.handler D.11.1 uninitialized.copy 20.6.12.2 uninitialized.fill 20.6.12.3 uninitialized.fill.n 20.6.12.4 unique.ptr 20.7.1 unique.ptr.dltr 20.7.1.1 unique.ptr.dltr.dflt 20.7.1.1.2 unique.ptr.dltr.dflt1 20.7.1.1.3 unique.ptr.dltr.general 20.7.1.1.1 unique.ptr.runtime 20.7.1.3 unique.ptr.runtime.ctor 20.7.1.3.1 unique.ptr.runtime.modifiers 20.7.1.3.3 unique.ptr.runtime.observers 20.7.1.3.2 unique.ptr.single 20.7.1.2 unique.ptr.single.asgn 20.7.1.2.3 unique.ptr.single.ctor 20.7.1.2.1 unique.ptr.single.dtor 20.7.1.2.2 unique.ptr.single.modifiers 20.7.1.2.5 unique.ptr.single.observers 20.7.1.2.4 unique.ptr.special 20.7.1.4 unord 23.5 1238
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unord.general 23.5.1 unord.hash 20.8.12 unord.map 23.5.4 unord.map.cnstr 23.5.4.2 unord.map.elem 23.5.4.3 unord.map.modifiers 23.5.4.4 unord.map.overview 23.5.4.1 unord.map.swap 23.5.4.5 unord.map.syn 23.5.2 unord.multimap 23.5.5 unord.multimap.cnstr 23.5.5.2 unord.multimap.modifiers 23.5.5.3 unord.multimap.overview 23.5.5.1 unord.multimap.swap 23.5.5.4 unord.multiset 23.5.7 unord.multiset.cnstr 23.5.7.2 unord.multiset.overview 23.5.7.1 unord.multiset.swap 23.5.7.3 unord.req 23.2.5 unord.req.except 23.2.5.1 unord.set 23.5.6 unord.set.cnstr 23.5.6.2 unord.set.overview 23.5.6.1 unord.set.swap 23.5.6.3 unord.set.syn 23.5.3 upper.bound 25.4.3.2 using 17.6.2 using.headers 17.6.2.2 using.linkage 17.6.2.3 using.overview 17.6.2.1 usrlit.suffix 17.6.4.3.5 util.dynamic.safety 20.6.4 util.smartptr 20.7.2 util.smartptr.enab 20.7.2.4 util.smartptr.getdeleter 20.7.2.2.10 util.smartptr.hash 20.7.2.6 util.smartptr.ownerless 20.7.2.3.7 util.smartptr.shared 20.7.2.2 util.smartptr.shared.assign 20.7.2.2.3 util.smartptr.shared.atomic 20.7.2.5 util.smartptr.shared.cast 20.7.2.2.9 util.smartptr.shared.cmp 20.7.2.2.7 util.smartptr.shared.const 20.7.2.2.1 util.smartptr.shared.create 20.7.2.2.6 util.smartptr.shared.dest 20.7.2.2.2 util.smartptr.shared.io 20.7.2.2.11 util.smartptr.shared.mod 20.7.2.2.4 util.smartptr.shared.obs 20.7.2.2.5 util.smartptr.shared.spec 20.7.2.2.8
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util.smartptr.weak 20.7.2.3 util.smartptr.weak.assign 20.7.2.3.3 util.smartptr.weak.const 20.7.2.3.1 util.smartptr.weak.dest 20.7.2.3.2 util.smartptr.weak.mod 20.7.2.3.4 util.smartptr.weak.obs 20.7.2.3.5 util.smartptr.weak.spec 20.7.2.3.6 util.smartptr.weakptr 20.7.2.1 utilities 20 utilities.general 20.1 utility 20.2 utility.arg.requirements 17.6.3.1 utility.requirements 17.6.3 utility.swap 20.2.2 V valarray.access 26.6.2.4 valarray.assign 26.6.2.3 valarray.binary 26.6.3.1 valarray.cassign 26.6.2.7 valarray.comparison 26.6.3.2 valarray.cons 26.6.2.2 valarray.members 26.6.2.8 valarray.nonmembers 26.6.3 valarray.range 26.6.10 valarray.special 26.6.3.4 valarray.sub 26.6.2.5 valarray.syn 26.6.1 valarray.transcend 26.6.3.3 valarray.unary 26.6.2.6 value.error.codes 17.6.5.14 vector 23.3.6 vector.bool 23.3.7 vector.capacity 23.3.6.3 vector.cons 23.3.6.2 vector.data 23.3.6.4 vector.modifiers 23.3.6.5 vector.overview 23.3.6.1 vector.special 23.3.6.6 W wide.stream.objects X xref
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Index !, see operator, logical negation !=, see inequality operator (), see operator, function call, see declarator, function *, see operator, indirection, see multiplication operator, see declarator, pointer +, see operator, unary plus, see addition operator ++, see operator, increment ,, see comma operator -, see operator, unary minus, see subtraction operator ->, see operator, class member access ->*, see pointer to member operator --, see operator, decrement ., see operator, class member access .*, see pointer to member operator ..., see ellipsis /, see division operator : field declaration, 215 label specifier, 124 ::, see scope resolution operator ::*, see declarator, pointer to member , see right shift operator ?:, see conditional expression operator [], see operator, subscripting, see declarator, array ¨...¨, see preprocessing directives, source-file inclusion # operator, 391, 392 ## operator, 392 #define, 391 #elif, 388 #else, 389 #endif, 389 #error, see preprocessing directives, error
#if, 388, 422 #ifdef, 389 #ifndef, 389 #include, 389, 409 #line, see preprocessing directives, line control #pragma, see preprocessing directives, pragma #undef, 393, 419 %, see remainder operator &, see operator, address-of, see bitwise AND operator, see declarator, reference &&, see logical AND operator ˆ, see bitwise exclusive OR operator _ _ DATE _ _, 396 _ _ FILE _ _, 396 _ _ LINE _ _, 396 _ _ STDC _ _, 396 implementation-defined, 396 _ _ STDCPP_STRICT_POINTER_SAFETY _ _, 397 implementation-defined, 397 _ _ STDCPP_THREADS _ _, 397 implementation-defined, 397 _ _ STDC_HOSTED _ _, 396 implementation-defined, 396 _ _ STDC_ISO_10646 _ _, 397 implementation-defined, 397 _ _ STDC_MB_MIGHT_NEQ_WC _ _, 396 implementation-defined, 396 _ _ STDC_VERSION _ _, 396 implementation-defined, 396 _ _ TIME _ _, 396 _ _ VA_ARGS _ _, 391 _ _cplusplus, 396 \, see backslash {} block statement, 124 class declaration, 204 class definition, 204 enum declaration, 149 initializer list, 193 ~, see destructor _, see character, underscore |, see bitwise inclusive OR operator ||, see logical OR operator ~, see operator, one’s complement 0, see also zero, null
Cross references
1240
c ISO/IEC
null character, 29 string terminator, 29 abort, 62, 129 abstract-declarator, 173, 1176 abstract-pack-declarator, 173, 1176 access control, 231–241 base class, 233 base class member, 219 class member, 96 default, 231 default argument, 232 friend function, 236 member name, 231 multiple access, 240 nested class, 240 overloading and, 276 private, 231 protected, 231, 239 public, 231 union default member, 204 using-declaration and, 161 virtual function, 240 access-specifier, 219, 1178 access control anonymous union, 215 member function and, 242 overloading resolution and, 223 access specifier, 232, 233 addition operator, 113 additive-expression, 113, 1169 address, 73, 116 address of member function unspecified, 422 aggregate, 193 aggregate initialization, 193 algorithm stable, 401, 423 alias namespace, 156 alias template, 331 alias-declaration, 133, 1171 alignment extended, 76 fundamental, 76 alignment-specifier, 167, 1174 alignment requirement implementation-defined, 76 allocation alignment storage, 108 implementation defined bit-field, 216 Cross references
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unspecified, 209 allocation functions, 63 allowing an exception, see exception handling, allowing an exception alternative token, see token, alternative ambiguity base class member, 222 class conversion, 224 declaration type, 135 declaration versus cast, 174 declaration versus expression, 131 function declaration, 191 member access, 222 overloaded function, 276 parentheses and, 107 Amendment 1, 419 and-expression, 116, 1169 appertain, 168 argc, 59 argument, 2, 421, 422, 458 access checking and default, 232 binding of default, 185 evaluation of default, 185, 186 example of default, 184, 185 function call expression, 2 function-like macro, 2 overloaded operator and default, 296 reference, 94 scope of default, 186 template, 308 template instantiation, 2 throw expression, 2 type checking of default, 185 arguments implementation-defined order of evaluation of function, 186 argument and name hiding default, 186 argument and virtual function default, 186 argument list empty, 181 variable, 181 argument passing, 94 reference and, 196 argument substitution, see macro, argument substitution argument type unknown, 181 argv, 59 arithmetic 1241
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pointer, 113 unsigned, 71 array, 181 bound, 179 const, 73 delete, 110 multidimensional, 180 new, 107 overloading and pointer versus, 274 sizeof, 105 storage of, 180 array as aggregate, 731 contiguous storage, 731 initialization, 731, 733 tuple interface to, 733 zero sized, 733 array size default, 179 arrow operator, see operator, class member access as-if rule, 8 asm implementation-defined, 164 asm-definition, 164, 1174 assembler, 164 , 409 assignment and lvalue, 119 conversion by, 119 copy, see assignment operator, copy move, see assignment operator, move, 400 reference, 196 assignment operator copy, 242, 265–267 hidden, 266 implicitly declared, 265 implicitly defined, 267 inaccessible, 267 trivial, 266 virtual bases and, 267 move, 242, 265–267 hidden, 266 implicitly declared, 265 implicitly defined, 267 inaccessible, 267 trivial, 266 virtual bases and, 267 overloaded, 297 assignment-expression, 119, 1170 assignment-operator, 119, 1170 associative containers Cross references
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exception safety, 719 requirements, 719 unordered, see unordered associative containers asynchronous provider, 1147 asynchronous return object, 1147 atexit, 61 atomic operations, see operation, atomic attribute, 167–171 alignment, 169 carries dependency, 170 noreturn, 170 syntax and semantics, 167 attribute, 168, 1174 attribute-argument-clause, 168, 1175 attribute-declaration, 133, 1171 attribute-list, 168, 1174 attribute-namespace, 168, 1175 attribute-scoped-token, 168, 1175 attribute-specifier, 167, 1174 attribute-specifier-seq, 167, 1174 attribute-token, 168, 1175 automatic storage duration, 63 awk, 1059 backslash character, 26 bad_alloc, 108 bad_cast, 98 bad_exception, 386 bad_typeid, 99 bad_typeid::what implementation-defined, 447 balanced-token, 168, 1175 balanced-token-seq, 168, 1175 base class overloading and, 275 base class subobject, 7 base-clause, 219, 1177 base-specifier, 219, 1178 base-specifier-list, 219, 1178 base-type-specifier, 219, 1178 BaseCharacteristic, 559 base class, 219, 220 direct, 219 indirect, 219 private, 233 protected, 233 public, 233 base class virtual, see virtual base class basic_ios::failure argument implementation-defined, 981 1242
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begin unordered associative containers, 727 behavior conditionally-supported, 2, 5 default, 400, 404 implementation-defined, 3, 8 locale-specific, 3 observable, 8, 9 on receipt of signal, 8 required, 401, 404 undefined, 4, 5, 8 unspecified, 4, 8 Ben, 276 Bernoulli distributions, 913–916 bernoulli_distribution discrete probability function, 913 binary function, 544 binary operator overloaded, 297 BinaryTypeTrait, 559 binary operator interpretation of, 297 bind directly, 198 binding reference, 197 binomial_distribution discrete probability function, 914 bit-field, 215 address of, 216 alignment of, 216 implementation-defined sign of, 216 implementation defined alignment of, 216 type of, 216 unnamed, 216 zero width of, 216 block, 399 initialization in, 130 block scope, 39 block statement, see statement, compound block-declaration, 133, 1171 block structure, 130 body function, 187 Boolean, 216 Boolean literal, 29 boolean literal, see literal, boolean boolean-literal, 29, 1166 Boolean type, 72 bound arguments, 552 bound, of array, 179 brace-or-equal-initializer, 190, 1176 Cross references
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braced-init-list, 190, 1177 bucket unordered associative containers, 727 bucket_count unordered associative containers, 727 bucket_size unordered associative containers, 727 buckets, 720 byte, 6, 105 C linkage to, 165 standard, 1 standard library, 1 Unicode TR, 1 c-char, 25, 1164 c-char-sequence, 25, 1164 call operator function, 296 pseudo destructor, 96 call signature, 543 call wrapper, 543, 544 forwarding, 544 simple, 544 type, 543 Callable, 555 callable object, 543, 555 callable type, 543 capture, 88, 1167 capture-default, 88, 1167 capture-list, 88, 1167 captured, 90 by copy, 91 by reference, 91 carries a dependency, 12 carry subtract_with_carry_engine, 901 , 409 cast base class, 100 const, 102, 111 derived class, 100 dynamic, 97, 446 construction and, 261 destruction and, 261 integer to pointer, 101 lvalue, 99, 101 pointer-to-function, 101 pointer-to-member, 101, 102 pointer to integer, 101 reference, 99, 102 1243
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reinterpret, 101, 111 integer to pointer, 101 lvalue, 101 pointer to integer, 101 pointer-to-function, 101 pointer-to-member, 102 reference, 102 static, 99, 111 lvalue, 99 reference, 99 undefined pointer-to-function, 101 cast-expression, 111, 1169 casting, 95 catch, 377 cauchy_distribution probability density function, 923 cbegin unordered associative containers, 727 cend unordered associative containers, 727 , 419 char implementation-defined sign of, 71 char-like object, 601 char-like type, 601 char16_t, 25 char16_t character, 25 char32_t, 25 char32_t character, 25 char_class_type regular expression traits, 1050 character, 399 decimal-point, 406 multibyte, 3 signed, 71 source file, 16 underscore, 419 in identifier, 22 character literal, see literal, character character set, 17–18 basic execution, 6 basic source, 16, 17 character string literal, 392 character-literal, 25, 1164 character string, 28 checking point of error, 333 syntax, 333 chi_squared_distribution probability density function, 923 class, 72, 204–218 Cross references
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abstract, 229 base, 420, 424 cast to incomplete, 112 constructor and abstract, 230 definition, 34 derived, 424 linkage of, 56 linkage specification, 166 member function, see member function, class pointer to abstract, 230 polymorphic, 225 scope of enumerator, 152 standard-layout, 205 trivial, 204 unnamed, 139 class-head, 204, 1177 class-head-name, 204, 1177 class-key, 204, 1177 class-name, 204, 1177 class-or-decltype, 219, 1178 class-specifier, 204, 1177 class-virt-specifier, 204, 1177 class local, see local class class name, 173 elaborated, 148, 206, 207 point of declaration, 207 scope of, 206 typedef, 139, 207 class nested, see nested class class object assignment to, 119 const, 74 member, 209 sizeof, 105 class object copy, see copy constructor class object initialization, see constructor clear unordered associative containers, 726 , 406 closure object, 88 closure type, 88 collating element, 1049 comment, 19–20 /* */, 20 //, 20 comparison pointer, 115, 116 pointer to function, 115, 116 undefined pointer, 114, 115 unspecified pointer, 115 void* pointer, 115 1244
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compatible, see exception specification, compatible compilation separate, 16 compiler control line, see preprocessing directives complete object, 7 complete object of, 7 completely defined, 208 component, 399 compound-statement, 124, 1170 concatenation macro argument, see ## string, 28 condition, 125, 1170 conditions rules for, 125 conditional-expression throw-expression in, 117 conditional-expression, 117, 1170 conditionally-supported behavior seebehavior, conditionally-supported, 1 conflict, 11 conformance requirements, 5, 8 class templates, 5 classes, 5 general, 5 library, 5 method of description, 5 consistency linkage, 136 linkage specification, 166 type declaration, 58 const, 73 constructor and, 212, 243 destructor and, 212, 249 linkage of, 56, 136 overloading and, 275 const_cast, see cast, const const_local_iterator, 721 unordered associative containers, 721 constant, 23, 85 enumeration, 150 null pointer, 80, 81 constant iterator, 804 constant-expression, 120, 1170 constexpr function, 140 construction, 259–261 dynamic cast and, 261 member access, 259 move, 400 pointer to member or base, 259 Cross references
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typeid operator, 261 virtual function call, 260 constructor, 242 address of, 244 array of class objects and, 254 converting, 247 copy, 242, 245, 261–264, 406 elision, 267 implicitly declared, 263 implicitly defined, 264 inaccessible, 267 trivial, 264 default, 242, 243 exception handling, see exception handling, constructors and destructors explicit call, 244 implicitly called, 243 implicitly defined, 243 inheritance of, 243 inheriting, 269–272 move, 242, 261–264 elision, 267 implicitly declared, 263 implicitly defined, 264 inaccessible, 267 trivial, 264 non-trivial, 243 random number distribution requirement, 894 random number engine requirement, 891 type of, 244 union, 214 unspecified argument to, 108 constructor, conversion by, see conversion, userdefined constructor, default, see default constructor const-object undefined change to, 144 context non-deduced, 368 contextually converted to bool, see conversion, contextual continue and handler, 377 and try block, 377 control line, see preprocessing directives control-line, 387, 1180 conventions, 404 lexical, 16–31 conversion argument, 181 array-to-pointer, 78 1245
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bool, 80 boolean, 81 class, 246 contextual, 77 derived-to-base, 287 floating point, 80 floating to integral, 80 function-to-pointer, 78 implementation defined pointer integer, 101 implicit, 77, 246 implicit user-defined, 246 inheritance of user-defined, 249 integer rank, 81 integral, 80 integral to floating, 80 lvalue-to-rvalue, 78, 1186 narrowing, 202 overload resolution and pointer, 295 overload resolution and, 284 pointer, 80 pointer to member, 81 void*, 81 qualification, 78–79 return type, 130 standard, 77–82 static user-defined, 249 to signed, 80 to unsigned, 80 type of, 248 user-defined, 246–248 usual arithmetic, 84 virtual user-defined, 249 conversion operator, see conversion, user defined conversion rank, 288 conversion-declarator, 248, 1178 conversion-function-id, 248, 1178 conversion-type-id, 248, 1178 conversion explicit type, see casting conversion function, see conversion, user-defined copy class object, see constructor, copy; assignment, copy copy constructor random number engine requirement, 891 copy elision, see constructor, copy, elision; constructor, move, elision copy-initialization, 192 CopyInsertable into X, 707 count unordered associative containers, 727 , 181 Cross references
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, 106, 114 , 436 , 62, 408 , 406 ctor-initializer, 255, 1178 , 419 cv-qualifier, 73 cv-qualifier, 173, 1175 cv-qualifier-seq, 173, 1175 , 419 , 419 d-char, 27, 1166 d-char-sequence, 27, 1166 DAG multiple inheritance, 221, 222 non-virtual base class, 222 virtual base class, 221, 222 data race, 14 data member, see member deadlock, 400 deallocation, see delete deallocation functions, 63 decay, see conversion, array to pointer; conversion, function to pointer DECAY_COPY, 1118 decimal-literal, 23, 1164 decl-specifier, 134, 1172 decl-specifier-seq, 135, 1172 declaration, 32, 133–171 array, 179 asm, 164 bit-field, 215 class name, 33 constant pointer, 176 default argument, 184–187 definition versus, 32 ellipsis in function, 94, 181 enumerator point of, 38 extern, 33 extern reference, 196 forward, 137 forward class, 206 function, 33, 181 local class, 217 member, 207 multiple, 58 name, 32 opaque enum, 33 overloaded, 273 overloaded name and friend, 237 1246
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parameter, 33, 181 parentheses in, 174, 176 pointer, 176 reference, 177 register, 135 static member, 33 storage class, 135 type, 175 typedef, 33 typedef as type, 138 declaration, 133, 1171 declaration-seq, 133, 1171 declaration-statement, 130, 1171 declaration hiding, see name hiding declarative region, 37 declarator, 33, 134, 172–203 array, 179 function, 180–184 meaning of, 175–187 multidimensional array, 180 pointer, 176 pointer to member, 178 reference, 177 declarator, 172, 1175 declarator-id, 173, 1176 decltype-specifier, 145, 1173 decrement operator overloaded, see overloading, decrement operator default access control, see access control, default default constructor random number distribution requirement, 894 seed sequence requirement, 889 default-initialization, 191 default-inserted, 707 defaulted, 188 DefaultInsertable into X, 707 default argument overload resolution and, 284 default initializers overloading and, 275 deferred function, 1157 definition, 33 alternate, 420 class, 204, 208 class name as type, 206 constructor, 187 declaration as, 134 function, 187–190 deleted, 189 explicitly-defaulted, 188 Cross references
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local class, 217 member function, 210 namespace, 152 nested class, 216 pure virtual function, 229 scope of class, 206 static member, 213 virtual function, 228 definitions, 2–5 delete, 63, 109, 110, 252 array, 110 destructor and, 110, 250 object, 110 operator, 420 overloading and, 64 type of, 252 undefined, 110 delete-expression, 109, 1169 deleter, 513 dependency-ordered before, 12 deprecated features, 97, 105 dereferencing, see also indirection derivation, see inheritance derived class most, see most derived class derived object most, see most derived object derived class, 219–230 destruction, 259–261 dynamic cast and, 261 member access, 259 pointer to member or base, 259 typeid operator, 261 virtual function call, 260 destructor, 249, 406 default, 249 exception handling, see exception handling, constructors and destructors explicit call, 250, 251 implicit call, 250 implicitly defined, 250 non-trivial, 249 program termination and, 250 pure virtual, 250 union, 214 virtual, 250 diagnosable rules, 5 diagnostic message, see message, diagnostic digit, 21, 1163 digit-sequence, 27, 1165 digraph, see token, alternative, 20 1247
c ISO/IEC
directed acyclic graph, see DAG directive, preprocessing, see preprocessing directives discard random number engine requirement, 891 discard_block_engine generation algorithm, 903 state, 903 textual representation, 904 transition algorithm, 903 discarded-value expression, 84 discrete probability function bernoulli_distribution, 913 binomial_distribution, 914 discrete_distribution, 926 geometric_distribution, 915 negative_binomial_distribution, 915 poisson_distribution, 916 uniform_int_distribution, 911 discrete_distribution discrete probability function, 926 weights, 926 distribution, see random number distribution dominance virtual base class, 224 dot operator, see operator, class member access dynamic binding, see virtual function dynamic initialization, 59 dynamic type, see type, dynamic dynamic-exception-specification, 382, 1180 dynamic_cast, see cast, dynamic ECMA-262, 1 ECMAScript, 1059, 1094 egrep, 1059 elaborated-type-specifier, 148, 1173 elaborated type specifier, see class name, elaborated elif-group, 387, 1180 elif-groups, 387, 1180 elision copy, see constructor, copy, elision; constructor, move, elision copy constructor, see constructor, copy, elision move constructor, see constructor, move, elision ellipsis conversion sequence, 94, 288 overload resolution and, 284 else-group, 387, 1180 Cross references
N3376
EmplaceConstructible into X from args, 707 empty future object, 1152 empty shared_future object, 1154 empty-declaration, 133, 1171 encoding multibyte, 29 encoding-prefix, 27, 1165 end unordered associative containers, 727 end-of-file, 497 endif-line, 387, 1180 engine, see random number engine engine adaptor, see random number engine adaptor engines with predefined parameters default_random_engine, 907 knuth_b, 907 minstd_rand, 906 minstd_rand0, 906 mt19937, 906 mt19937_64, 906 ranlux24, 907 ranlux24_base, 906 ranlux48, 907 ranlux48_base, 906 entity, 32 enum, 73 overloading and, 274 type of, 149, 150 underlying type, 150 enum-base, 150, 1173 enum-head, 149, 1173 enum-key, 150, 1173 enum-name, 149, 1173 enum-specifier, 149, 1173 enumeration, 149, 150 linkage of, 56 scoped, 150 unscoped, 150 enumeration scope, 41 enumeration type conversion to, 100 static_cast conversion to, 100 enumerator definition, 34 value of, 150 enumerator, 150, 1173 enumerator-definition, 150, 1173 enumerator-list, 150, 1173 enum name 1248
c ISO/IEC
typedef, 139 environment program, 59 epoch, 580 equal_range unordered associative containers, 727 equality-expression, 116, 1169 equivalence template type, 314 type, 138, 206 equivalent-key group, 720 equivalent parameter declarations, 274 overloading and, 274 Erasable from X, 707 erase unordered associative containers, 726 escape-sequence, 25, 1165 escape character, see backslash escape sequence undefined, 26 Evaluation, 10 evaluation order of argument, 95 unspecified order of, 10, 60 unspecified order of argument, 95 unspecified order of function call, 95 example array, 179 class definition, 209 const, 176 constant pointer, 176 constructor, 244 constructor and initialization, 254 declaration, 33, 183 declarator, 173 definition, 33 delete, 252 derived class, 219 destructor and delete, 253 ellipsis, 181 enumeration, 151 explicit destructor call, 251 explicit qualification, 223 friend, 207 friend function, 236 function declaration, 182 function definition, 187 linkage consistency, 136 local class, 217 member function, 211, 236 nested type name, 218 Cross references
N3376
nested class, 216 nested class definition, 217, 240 nested class forward declaration, 217 pointer to member, 178 pure virtual function, 230 scope of delete, 253 scope resolution operator, 223 static member, 213 subscripting, 179 typedef, 138 type name, 173 unnamed parameter, 187 variable parameter list, 181 virtual function, 227, 228 exception arithmetic, 83 undefined arithmetic, 83 , 447 exception handling, 377–386 allowing an exception, 383 constructors and destructors, 380 exception object, 379 constructor, 379 destructor, 379 function try block, 378 goto, 377 handler, 377, 379–382, 424 array in, 380 incomplete type in, 380 match, 380–382 pointer to function in, 380 rvalue reference in, 380 memory, 379 nearest handler, 379 rethrow, 379, 380 rethrowing, 379 switch, 377 terminate() called, 379, 380, 383 throwing, 378, 379 try block, 377 unexpected() called, 383 exception object, see exception handling, exception object exception specification, 382–385 compatible, 382 incomplete type and, 382 noexcept constant expression and, 382 virtual function and, 383 exception-declaration, 377, 1179 exception-specification, 382, 1180 1249
c ISO/IEC
exception::what message implementation-defined, 448 exclusive-or-expression, 117, 1169 execution agent, 1116 exit, 59, 61, 129 explicit-instantiation, 349, 1179 explicit-specialization, 351, 1179 explicitly captured, 90 explicit type conversion, see casting exponent-part, 26, 1165 exponential_distribution probability density function, 917 expression, 83–123 additive operators, 113 alignof, 110 assignment and compound assignment, 119 bitwise AND, 116 bitwise exclusive OR, 117 bitwise inclusive OR, 117 cast, 95, 111–112 class member access, 96 comma, 120 conditional operator, 117 constant, 120 const cast, 102 decrement, 97, 105 delete, 109 dynamic cast, 97 equality operators, 116 function call, 93 increment, 97, 105 lambda, 88–93 left-shift-operator, 114 logical AND, 117 logical OR, 117 multiplicative operators, 113 new, 106 noexcept, 110 order of evaluation of, 9 parenthesized, 86 pointer-to-member, 112 pointer to member constant, 104 postfix, 93–104 primary, 85–93 pseudo-destructor call, 96 reference, 83 reinterpret cast, 101 relational operators, 114 right-shift-operator, 114 rvalue reference, 83 sizeof, 105 Cross references
N3376
static cast, 99 type identification, 99 unary, 104–111 unary operator, 104 expression, 120, 1170 expression-list, 93, 1168 expression-statement, 124, 1170 extended alignment, 76 extended integer type, 71 extended signed integer type, 71 extended unsigned integer type, 71 extension-namespace-definition, 153, 1174 extern, 135 linkage of, 136 extern "C", 409, 419 extern "C++", 409, 419 external linkage, 56 extreme_value_distribution probability density function, 920 file, source, see source file final overrider, 225 find unordered associative containers, 726 finite state machine, 1049 fisher_f_distribution probability density function, 924 floating literal, see literal, floating floating-literal, 26, 1165 floating-point literal, see literal, floating floating-suffix, 27, 1165 floating point type, 72 implementation-defined, 72 for scope of declaration in, 128 for-init-statement, 126, 1171 for-range-declaration, 126, 1171 for-range-initializer, 126, 1171 formal argument, see parameter format specifier, 1049 forwarding call wrapper, 544 fractional-constant, 26, 1165 free store, 252 freestanding implementation, 5 free store, see also new, delete friend virtual and, 228 access specifier and, 238 class access and, 236 inheritance and, 238 local class and, 238 1250
c ISO/IEC
template and, 321 friend function access and, 236 inline, 237 linkage of, 237 member function and, 236 friend function nested class, 217 full-expression, 9 function, see also friend function; member function; inline function; virtual function, 181 allocation, 63, 107 comparison, 399 conversion, 248 deallocation, 64, 110, 252 definition, 34 global, 419, 422 handler, 400 linkage specification overloaded, 166 modifier, 400 observer, 401 operator, 296 overload resolution and, 277 plain old, 454 pointer to member, 112 replacement, 401 reserved, 401 viable, 277 virtual member, 420, 422 function invocation substitution, 141 function object, 539 binders, 550–552 mem_fn, 552–553 reference_wrapper, 544 type, 539 wrapper, 553–558 function pointer type, 73 function try block, see exception handling, function try block function, overloaded, see overloading function, virtual, see virtual function function-definition, 187, 1176 function-like macro, see macro, function-like function-specifier, 137, 1172 function-try-block, 377, 1179 functions candidate, 344 function argument, see argument function call, 94 recursive, 95 undefined, 101 Cross references
N3376
function call operator overloaded, 297 function parameter, see parameter function prototype, 39 function return, see return function return type, see return type fundamental alignment, 76 fundamental type destructor and, 251 fundamental type conversion, see conversion, userdefined future shared state, 1147 gamma_distribution probability density function, 918 generate seed sequence requirement, 889 generated destructor, see destructor, default generation algorithm discard_block_engine, 903 independent_bits_engine, 904 linear_congruential_engine, 899 mersenne_twister_engine, 900 shuffle_order_engine, 905 subtract_with_carry_engine, 901 geometric_distribution discrete probability function, 915 global, 40 global namespace, 40 global namespace scope, 40 global scope, 40 glvalue, 74 goto and handler, 377 and try block, 377 initialization and, 130 grammar regular expression, 1094 grep, 1059 group, 387, 1180 group-part, 387, 1180 h-char, 20, 1163 h-char-sequence, 20, 1163 handler, see exception handling, handler handler, 377, 1179 handler-seq, 377, 1179 happens before, 13 hash instantiation restrictions, 558 1251
c ISO/IEC
N3376
hash code, 720 hash function, 720 hash tables, see unordered associative containers hash_function unordered associative containers, 724 hasher unordered associative containers, 721 header C, 419, 422, 1202 C library, 409 C++ library, 407 name, 20–21 header-name, 20, 1163 hex-quad, 17, 1162 hexadecimal-digit, 23, 1164 hexadecimal-escape-sequence, 25, 1165 hexadecimal-literal, 23, 1164 hiding, see name hiding high-order bit, 6 hosted implementation, 5
non-static member function and, 278 inclusion conditional, see preprocessing directive, conditional inclusion source file, see preprocessing directives, sourcefile inclusion inclusive-or-expression, 117, 1169 incomplete, 113 increment bool, 97, 105 increment operator overloaded, see overloading, increment operator independent_bits_engine generation algorithm, 904 state, 904 textual representation, 905 transition algorithm, 904 indeterminately sequenced, 10 indirection, 104 inheritance, 219 id init-declarator, 172, 1175 qualified, 87 init-declarator-list, 172, 1175 id-expression, 86 initialization, 59, 190–203 id-expression, 85, 1166 aggregate, 193 identifier, 21–22, 86, 134 array, 193 identifier, 21, 1163 array of class objects, 195, 254 identifier-list, 388, 1181 automatic, 130, 131 identifier-nondigit, 21, 1163 automatic object, 190 if-group, 387, 1180 base class, 255, 256 if-section, 387, 1180 character array, 196 ill-formed program, see program, ill-formed character array, 196 immolation class member, 191 self, 354 class object, see also constructor, 193, 253– implementation 259 freestanding, 408 const, 144, 193 hosted, 408 const member, 256 implementation limits, see limits, implementation constant, 59 implementation-defined, 419, 427, 439, 444, 446– constructor and, 253, 254 449, 652, 974, 1027, 1201 copy, 192 implementation-defined behavior, see behavior, implemendefault, 190 tation-defined default constructor and, 253 implementation-dependent, 1000 definition and, 134 implementation-generated, 33 direct, 192 implicit object parameter, 277 dynamic, 59 implicitly captured, 90 explicit, 254 implicitly-declared default constructor, see conjump past, 130 structor, default, 243 list-initialization, 198–203 implicit conversion, see conversion, implicit local static, 131 implied object argument, 277 member, 255 implicit conversion sequences, 278 member function call during, 258 Cross references
1252
c ISO/IEC
member object, 256 order of, 59, 220 order of base class, 257 order of member, 257 order of virtual base class, 257 overloaded assignment and, 254 parameter, 94 reference, 178, 196 reference member, 256 run-time, 59 static and thread, 59 static member, 213 static object, 59 static object, 190 union, 195, 215 virtual base class, 264 initializer base class, 187 member, 187 pack expansion, 259 scope of member, 258 temporary and declarator, 245 initializer, 190, 1176 initializer-clause, 190, 1176 initializer-list, 190, 1177 initializer-list constructor seed sequence requirement, 889 , 452 injected-class-name, 204 inline, 422 inline linkage of, 56 inline function, 137 insert unordered associative containers, 725, 726 instantiation explicit, 349 point of, 343 template implicit, 346 instantiation units, 17 integer literal, see literal, integer integer representation, 65 integer-literal, 23, 1164 integer-suffix, 23, 1164 integer type, 72 integral type, 72 sizeof, 71 inter-thread happens before, 12 internal linkage, 56 interval boundaries piecewise_constant_distribution, 928 Cross references
N3376
piecewise_linear_distribution, 930 invocation macro, 391 isctype regular expression traits, 1051 iteration-statement, 126, 129, 1170 Jessie, 247 jump-statement, 129, 1171 key_eq unordered associative containers, 724 key_equal unordered associative containers, 721 key_type unordered associative containers, 720 keyword, 22 label, 130 case, 124, 126 default, 124, 126 scope of, 39, 124 labeled-statement, 124, 1170 lambda-capture, 88, 1167 lambda-declarator, 88, 1167 lambda-expression, 88, 1167 lambda-introducer, 88, 145, 1167 lattice, see DAG, subobject layout bit-field, 216 class object, 209, 220 layout-compatible type, 151 layout-compatible type, 71 left shift undefined, 114 left shift operator, 114 lexical conventions, see conventions, lexical library C standard, 399, 406, 407, 409, 1198, 1201, 1202 C++ standard, 398, 420, 421, 424 library clauses, 6 lifetime, 66 limits implementation, 3 , 427 line splicing, 16 linear_congruential_engine generation algorithm, 899 modulus, 899 state, 899 1253
c ISO/IEC
textual representation, 899 transition algorithm, 899 linkage, 32, 56–58 const and, 56 external, 56, 409, 419 implementation-defined object, 167 inline and, 56 internal, 56 no, 56, 57 static and, 56 linkage specification, see specification, linkage linkage-specification, 165, 1174 literal, 23–31, 85 base of integer, 24 boolean, 29 char16_t, 25 char32_t, 25 character, 25 constant, 23 decimal, 24 double, 27 float, 27 floating, 26, 27 hexadecimal, 24 char, 26 integer, 23, 24 long, 24 long double, 27 multicharacter, 25 implementation-defined value of, 25 narrow-character, 25 octal, 24 pointer, 29 string, 27, 28 char16_t, 28 char32_t, 28 implementation-defined, 28 narrow, 28 type of, 28 undefined change to, 28 wide, 28 type of character, 25 type of floating point, 27 type of integer, 24 unsigned, 24 user defined, 30 literal, 23, 1164 literal type, 70 literal-operator-id, 299, 1178 load_factor unordered associative containers, 728 Cross references
N3376
local lambda expression, 90 local variable, 39 local_iterator, 721 unordered associative containers, 721 locale, 1049, 1050, 1052, 1059 locale-specific behavior, see behavior, locale-specific local class friend, 238 member function in, 210 scope of, 217 local scope, see block scope local variable destruction of, 129, 130 logical-and-expression, 117, 1169 logical-or-expression, 117, 1170 lognormal_distribution probability density function, 922 long typedef and, 135 long-long-suffix, 24, 1164 long-suffix, 24, 1164 lookup argument-dependent, 46 class member, 54 class member, 49 elaborated type specifier, 54 member name, 222 name, 32, 42–56 namespace aliases and, 56 namespace member, 50 qualified name, 48–54 template name, 331 unqualified name, 43 using-directives and, 56 lookup_classname regular expression traits, 1096 lookup_classname regular expression traits, 1051 lookup_collatename regular expression traits, 1051 low-order bit, 6 lowercase, 406 lparen, 388, 1181 lvalue, 74, 1186 lvalue reference, 72, 177 macro argument substitution, 391 function-like, 390, 391 arguments, 391 masking, 422 1254
c ISO/IEC
name, 391 object-like, 390, 391 pragma operator, 397 predefined, 396 replacement, 390–395 replacement list, 390 rescanning and replacement, 393 scope of definition, 393 main(), 58 implementation-defined linkage of, 59 implementation-defined parameters to, 59 parameters to, 59 return from, 59, 61 match_results as sequence, 1077 matched, 1049 max random number distribution requirement, 894 uniform random number generator requirement, 890 max_bucket_count unordered associative containers, 727 max_load_factor unordered associative containers, 728 mean normal_distribution, 921 poisson_distribution, 916 mem-initializer, 255, 1178 mem-initializer-id, 255, 1178 mem-initializer-list, 255, 1178 member class static, 62 enumerator, 152 static, 212 template and static, 317 member access operator overloaded, 298 member function call undefined, 211 class, 210 const, 212 constructor and, 244 destructor and, 250 friend, 237 inline, 210 local class, 218 nested class, 240 nonstatic, 211 overload resolution and, 277 static, 212, 213 this, 212 Cross references
N3376
union, 214 volatile, 212 member names, 39 member subobject, 7 member-declaration, 208, 1177 member-declarator, 208, 1177 member-declarator-list, 208, 1177 member-specification, 207, 1177 members, 39 member data static, 213 member pointer to, see pointer to member memory location, 6 memory model, 6–7 memory management, see also new, delete mersenne_twister_engine generation algorithm, 900 state, 900 textual representation, 901 transition algorithm, 900 message diagnostic, 2, 5 min random number distribution requirement, 894 uniform random number generator requirement, 890 modification order, 11 most derived class, 7 most derived object, 7 bit-field, 7 zero size subobject, 7 move class object, see constructor, move; assignment, move MoveInsertable into X, 707 multi-pass guarantee, 807 multibyte character, see character, multibyte multicharacter literal, see literal, multicharacter multiple threads, see threads, multiple multiple inheritance, 219, 220 virtual and, 228 multiplicative-expression, 113, 1169 mutable, 135 mutable iterator, 804 mutex types, 1124 name, 21, 32, 86 address of cv-qualified, 104 dependent, 337, 343 elaborated enum, 148 1255
c ISO/IEC
global, 40 length of, 21 macro, see macro, name point of declaration, 37 predefined macro, see macro, predefined qualified, 48 reserved, 419 scope of, 37 unqualified, 43 name hiding function, 276 overloading versus, 276 using-declaration and, 160 named-namespace-definition, 153, 1174 namespace, 407, 1202 alias, 156 definition, 152 global, 419 member definition, 154 unnamed, 154 namespace-alias, 156, 1174 namespace-alias-definition, 156, 1174 namespace-body, 153, 1174 namespace-definition, 153, 1174 namespace-name, 152, 1174 namespaces, 152–164 name class, see class name name hiding, 37, 42, 87, 130 class definition, 206 user-defined conversion and, 247 name space label, 124 narrowing conversion, 202 NDEBUG, 409 negative_binomial_distribution discrete probability function, 915 nested-name-specifier, 87, 1167 nested class local class, 218 scope of, 216 , 439 new, 63, 106, 107 array of class objects and, 108 constructor and, 108 default constructor and, 108 exception and, 109 initialization and, 108 operator, 420 scoping and, 106 storage allocation, 106 type of, 252 Cross references
N3376
unspecified constructor and, 108 unspecified order of evaluation, 108 new-declarator, 106, 1168 new-expression, 106, 1168 new-initializer, 106, 1169 new-line, 388, 1181 new-placement, 106, 1168 new-type-id, 106, 1168 new_handler, 64 no linkage, 56 noexcept-expression, 110, 1169 noexcept-specification, 382, 1180 non-directive, 388, 1180 non-throwing, 384 nondigit, 21, 1163 nonzero-digit, 23, 1164 noptr-abstract-declarator, 173, 1176 noptr-abstract-pack-declarator, 173, 1176 noptr-declarator, 172, 1175 noptr-new-declarator, 106, 1169 normal distributions, 921–926 normal_distribution mean, 921 probability density function, 921 standard deviation, 921 normative references, see references, normative notation syntax, 6 notify_all_at_thread_exit, 1137 NTBS, 406, 1036, 1210, 1211 static, 406 NTCTS, 401 NTMBS, 406 static, 406 number hex, 26 octal, 26 numeric_limits, 427 numeric_limits, 72 object, see also object model, 7, 32 byte copying and, 69 complete, 7 definition, 34 delete, 110 destructor static, 61 destructor and placement of, 251 linkage specification, 167 local static, 62 undefined deleted, 64 unnamed, 244 1256
c ISO/IEC
object expression, 96 object model, 7 object pointer type, 73 object representation, 69 object type, 7, 70 object, exception, see exception handling, exception object object-like macro, see macro, object-like object class, see also class object object lifetime, 66–69 object temporary, see temporary object type, 70 observable behavior, see behavior, observable octal-digit, 23, 1164 octal-escape-sequence, 25, 1165 octal-literal, 23, 1164 odr-used, 34 one-definition rule, 34–36 opaque-enum-declaration, 150, 1173 operation atomic, 11–14 operator, 22–23, 296 *=, 119 +=, 105, 119 -=, 119 /=, 119 =, 119 %=, 119 &=, 119 ˆ=, 119 |=, 119 additive, 113 address-of, 104 assignment, 119, 406 bitwise, 116 bitwise AND, 116 bitwise exclusive OR, 117 bitwise inclusive OR, 117 cast, 104, 173 class member access, 96 comma, 120 conditional expression, 117 copy assignment, see assignment, copy decrement, 97, 104, 105 division, 113 equality, 116 function call, 93, 296 greater than, 115 greater than or equal to, 115 increment, 97, 104, 105 Cross references
N3376
indirection, 104 inequality, 116 less than, 115 less than or equal to, 115 logical AND, 117 logical negation, 104, 105 logical OR, 117 move assignment, see assignment, move multiplication, 113 multiplicative, 113 one’s complement, 104, 105 overloaded, 83, 296 pointer to member, 112 pragma, see macro, pragma operator precedence of, 9 relational, 114 remainder, 113 scope resolution, 87, 107, 210, 219, 229 side effects and comma, 120 side effects and logical AND, 117 side effects and logical OR, 117 sizeof, 104, 105 subscripting, 93, 296 unary, 104 unary minus, 104, 105 unary plus, 104, 105 operator, 296, 1178 operator delete, see also delete, 107, 110, 252 operator new, see also new, 107 operator overloading, see overloading, operator operator!= random number distribution requirement, 895 random number engine requirement, 891 operator() random number distribution requirement, 894 random number engine requirement, 891 uniform random number generator requirement, 890 operator-function-id, 296, 1178 operator> random number distribution requirement, 895 random number engine requirement, 892 operator , see delete operator left shift, see left shift operator operator right shift, see right shift operator 1257
c ISO/IEC
operator use scope resolution, 213 optimization of temporary, see elimination of temporary order of evaluation in expression, see expression, order of evaluation of ordering function template partial, 329 order of execution base class constructor, 244 base class destructor, 250 constructor and static objects, 255 constructor and array, 253 destructor, 250 destructor and array, 250 member constructor, 244 member destructor, 250 original-namespace-definition, 153, 1174 original-namespace-name, 153, 1174 over-aligned type, 76 overflow, 83 undefined, 83 overloaded function, see overloading overloaded operator, see overloading, operator overloadedfunction address of, 294 overloaded function address of, 105 overloaded operator inheritance of, 296 overloading, 181, 206, 273–302, 327 access control and, 276 address of overloaded function, 294 argument lists, 277–284 assignment operator, 297 binary operator, 297 built-in operators and, 299 candidate functions, 277–284 declaration matching, 275 declarations, 273 example of, 273 function call operator, 297 member access operator, 298 operator, 296–299 prohibited, 273 resolution, 276–294 best viable function, 284–296 contexts, 277 function call syntax, 278–280 function template, 374 implicit conversions and, 286–294 Cross references
N3376
initialization, 282–284 operators, 280 scoping ambiguity, 223 template, 329 template name, 331 viable functions, 284–296 subscripting operator, 297 unary operator, 296 user-defined literal, 299 using directive and, 164 using-declaration and, 161 overloads floating point, 887 overrider final, 225 own, 513 pair tuple interface to, 476 param random number distribution requirement, 894 seed sequence requirement, 889 param_type random number distribution requirement, 894 parameter, 3 catch clause, 3 function, 3 function-like macro, 3 reference, 177 scope of, 39 template, 3, 33 void, 181 parameter declaration, 33 parameter-declaration, 181, 1176 parameter-declaration-clause, 181, 1176 parameter-declaration-list, 181, 1176 parameterized type, see template parameters macro, 391 parameters-and-qualifiers, 172, 1175 parameter list variable, 94, 181 period, 406 phases of translation, see translation, phases piecewise construction, 478 piecewise_constant_distribution interval boundaries, 928 probability density function, 928 weights, 928 piecewise_linear_distribution interval boundaries, 930 1258
c ISO/IEC
probability density function, 930 weights at boundaries, 930 placement syntax new, 108 pm-expression, 112, 1169 POD class, 205 POD struct, 205 POD union, 205 POF, 454 point of declaration, 37 pointer, see also void* safely-derived, 65 to traceable object, 424 to traceable object, 65 zero, 80 pointer literal, see literal, pointer pointer, integer representation of safely-derived, 65 pointer-literal, 29, 1166 pointer to member, 73, 112 Poisson distributions, 916–921 poisson_distribution discrete probability function, 916 mean, 916 POSIX, 1 extended regular expressions, 1059 regular expressions, 1059 postfix-expression, 93, 1168 postfix ++ and -overloading, 298 postfix ++, 97 postfix --, 97 potential results, 34 potential scope, 37 potentially evaluated, 34 pp-number, 21, 1163 pp-tokens, 388, 1181 precedence of operator, see operator, precedence of prefix L, 25, 28 prefix ++ and -overloading, 298 prefix ++, 105 prefix --, 105 preprocessing directive, 387 conditional inclusion, 388 preprocessing directives, 387–397 error, 395 header inclusion, 389 line control, 395 Cross references
N3376
macro replacement, see macro, replacement null, 396 pragma, 396 source-file inclusion, 389 preprocessing-file, 387, 1180 preprocessing-op-or-punc, 23, 1163 preprocessing-token, 19, 1162 primary equivalence class, 1050 primary-expression, 85, 1166 private, see access control, private probability density function cauchy_distribution, 923 chi_squared_distribution, 923 exponential_distribution, 917 extreme_value_distribution, 920 fisher_f_distribution, 924 gamma_distribution, 918 lognormal_distribution, 922 normal_distribution, 921 piecewise_constant_distribution, 928 piecewise_linear_distribution, 930 student_t_distribution, 925 uniform_real_distribution, 912 weibull_distribution, 919 program, 56 ill-formed, 3 start, 58–61 termination, 61–62 well-formed, 5, 8 program execution, 8–11 abstract machine, 8 as-if rule, see as-if rule promotion bool to int, 80 floating point, 80 integral, 79 protected, see access control, protected protection, see access control, 424 prvalue, 75 pseudo-destructor-name, 96 pseudo-destructor-name, 93, 1168 ptr-abstract-declarator, 173, 1176 ptr-declarator, 172, 1175 ptr-operator, 173, 1175 ptrdiff_t, 114 implementation defined type of, 114 public, see access control, public punctuator, 22–23 pure-specifier, 208, 1177 q-char, 21, 1163 1259
c ISO/IEC
q-char-sequence, 21, 1163 qualification explicit, 48 qualified-id, 87, 1167 qualified-namespace-specifier, 156, 1174 r-char, 27, 1166 r-char-sequence, 27, 1165 random number distribution bernoulli_distribution, 913 binomial_distribution, 914 chi_squared_distribution, 923 discrete_distribution, 926 exponential_distribution, 917 extreme_value_distribution, 920 fisher_f_distribution, 924 gamma_distribution, 918 geometric_distribution, 915 lognormal_distribution, 922 negative_binomial_distribution, 915 normal_distribution, 921 piecewise_constant_distribution, 928 piecewise_linear_distribution, 930 poisson_distribution, 916 requirements, 893–896 student_t_distribution, 925 uniform_int_distribution, 911 uniform_real_distribution, 912 random number distributions Bernoulli, 913–916 normal, 921–926 Poisson, 916–921 sampling, 926–931 uniform, 911–913 random number engine linear_congruential_engine, 899 mersenne_twister_engine, 900 requirements, 890–892 subtract_with_carry_engine, 901 with predefined parameters, 906–907 random number engine adaptor discard_block_engine, 903 independent_bits_engine, 904 shuffle_order_engine, 905 with predefined parameters, 906–907 random number generation, 887–931 distributions, 911–931 engines, 898–906 predefined engines and adaptors, 906–907 requirements, 888–896 synopsis, 896–898 Cross references
N3376
utilities, 908–911 random number generator, see uniform random number generator random_device implementation leeway, 907 raw string literal, 28 raw-string, 27, 1165 reaching scope, 90 ready, 1077, 1148 redefinition typedef, 138 ref-qualifier, 173, 1175 reference, 72 assignment to, 119 call by, 94 lvalue, 72 null, 178 rvalue, 72 sizeof, 105 reference collapsing, 178 reference-compatible, 197 reference-related, 197 references normative, 1 regex_iterator end-of-sequence, 1089 regex_token_iterator end-of-sequence, 1091 regex_traits specializations, 1063 region declarative, 32, 37 register, 135 regular expression, 1049–1096 grammar, 1094 matched, 1049 requirements, 1050 regular expression traits, 1094 char_class_type, 1050 isctype, 1051 lookup_classname, 1096 lookup_classname, 1051 lookup_collatename, 1051 requirements, 1050, 1063 transform, 1095 transform, 1051 transform_primary, 1096 transform_primary, 1051 translate, 1095 translate, 1050 translate_nocase, 1095 1260
c ISO/IEC
translate_nocase, 1051 rehash unordered associative containers, 728 reinterpret_cast, see cast, reinterpret relational-expression, 115, 1169 relaxed pointer safety, 65 release sequence, 12 remainder operator, see remainder operator replacement macro, see macro, replacement replacement-list, 388, 1181 representation object, 69 value, 69 requirements, 402 Allocator, 413 container, 702, 720, 731, 733, 1077 not required for unordered associated containers, 719 CopyAssignable, 410 CopyConstructible, 410 DefaultConstructible, 410 Destructible, 410 EqualityComparable, 410 Hash, 413 iterator, 804 LessThanComparable, 410 MoveAssignable, 410 MoveConstructible, 410 NullablePointer, 413 numeric type, 875 random number distribution, 893–896 random number engine, 890–892 regular expression traits, 1050, 1063 seed sequence, 888–889 sequence, 1077 uniform random number generator, 889–890 unordered associative container, 720 reraise, see exception handling, rethrow rescanning and replacement, see macro, rescanning and replacement reserved identifier, 22 reset, 513 reset random number distribution requirement, 894 resolution, see overloading, resolution restriction, 421, 422, 424 address of bit-field, 216 anonymous union, 215 bit-field, 216 constructor, 243, 244 Cross references
N3376
destructor, 249 extern, 136 local class, 218 operator overloading, 296 overloading, 296 pointer to bit-field, 216 reference, 178 register, 135 static, 136 static member local class, 214 union, 214 result_type entity characterization based on, 887 result_type random number distribution requirement, 894 seed sequence requirement, 889 uniform random number generator requirement, 890 rethrow, see exception handling, rethrow return, 129, 130 and handler, 377 and try block, 377 constructor and, 130 reference and, 196 return statement, see return return type, 182 overloading and, 273 right shift implementation defined, 114 right shift operator, 114 rounding, 80 rvalue, 74 lvalue conversion to, see conversion, lvalue to rvalue lvalue conversion to, 1186 rvalue reference, 72, 177 s-char, 27, 1165 s-char-sequence, 27, 1165 safely-derived pointer, 65 integer representation, 65 sampling distributions, 926–931 scalar type, 70 scope, 1, 32, 37–42, 134 anonymous union at namespace, 215 block, 39 class, 40 declarations and, 37–39 destructor and exit from, 129 enumeration, 41 exception declaration, 39 1261
c ISO/IEC
function, 39 function prototype, 39 global, 40 global namespace, 40 iteration-statement, 127 macro definition, see macro, scope of definition namespace, 39 name lookup and, 42–56 overloading and, 275 potential, 37 selection-statement, 125 template parameter, 41 scope name hiding and, 42 scope resolution operator, 49 seed random number engine requirement, 891 seed sequence, 888 requirements, 888–889 selection-statement, 125, 1170 semantics class member, 96 separate compilation, see compilation, separate separate translation, see compilation, separate sequence ambiguous conversion, 287 implicit conversion, 286 standard conversion, 77 sequence constructor seed sequence requirement, 889 Sequenced before, 10 sequencing operator, see comma operator setlocale, 406 shared state, see future, shared state shift-expression, 114, 1169 shift operator, see left shift operator, right shift operator short typedef and, 135 shuffle_order_engine generation algorithm, 905 state, 905 textual representation, 906 transition algorithm, 905 side effects, 8, 10–14, 117, 124, 245, 257, 267, 393, 424 visible, 13 visible sequence of, 13 sign, 27, 1165 signal, 8 signature, 3, 4 Cross references
N3376
signed typedef and, 135 signed integer type, 71 simple call wrapper, 544 simple-declaration, 133, 1171 simple-escape-sequence, 25, 1165 simple-template-id, 307, 1179 simple-type-specifier, 145, 1173 size seed sequence requirement, 889 size_t, 106 smart pointers, 523–539 source file, 16, 409, 420 source file character, see character, source file space white, 19 specialization class template, 308 class template partial, 323 template, 345 template explicit, 351 special member function, see constructor, destructor, inline function, user-defined conversion, virtual function specification linkage, 164–167 extern, 165 implementation-defined, 165 nesting, 165 template argument, 357 specifications C standard library exception, 424 C++, 424 implementation-defined exception, 424 specifier, 134–149 friend, 424 constexpr, 139 constructor, 140, 141 function, 140 cv-qualifier, 144 declaration, 134 explicit, 138 friend, 139 function, 137 inline, 137 missing storage class, 136 static, 135 storage class, 135 type, see type specifier typedef, 138 virtual, 137 1262
c ISO/IEC
specifier access, see access specifier stable algorithm, 401, 423 stack unwinding see exception handling, constructors and destructors, 380 standard structure of, 5–6 standard deviation normal_distribution, 921 standard-layout types, 70 standard-layout class, 205 standard-layout struct, 205 standard-layout union, 205 standard integer type, 71 standard signed integer type, 71 standard unsigned integer type, 71 start program, 59 startup program, 409, 420 state discard_block_engine, 903 independent_bits_engine, 904 linear_congruential_engine, 899 mersenne_twister_engine, 900 object, 400 shuffle_order_engine, 905 subtract_with_carry_engine, 901 statement, 124–132 continue in for, 128 break, 129 compound, 124 continue, 129 declaration, 130 declaration in if, 125 declaration in switch, 125 declaration in for, 128 declaration in switch, 126 declaration in while, 127 do, 126, 127 empty, 124 expression, 124 for, 126, 128 goto, 124, 129, 130 if, 125, 126 iteration, 126–129 jump, 129 labeled, 124 null, 124 for, 128 selection, 125–126 Cross references
N3376
switch, 125, 126, 129 while, 126, 127 statement, 124, 1170 statement-seq, 124, 1170 static, 135 destruction of local, 131 linkage of, 56, 136 overloading and, 273 static initialization, 59 static storage duration, 62 static type, see type, static static_assert, 134 static_assert-declaration, 133, 1171 static_cast, see cast, static , 25, 28 , 456 storage-class-specifier, 135, 1172 storage class, 32 storage duration, 62–66 automatic, 62, 63 class member, 66 dynamic, 62–65, 106 local object, 63 register, 63 static, 62 thread, 62 storage management, see new, delete stream arbitrary-positional, 399 repositional, 401 streambuf implementation-defined, 962 strict pointer safety, 65 string distinct, 28 null-terminated byte, 406 null-terminated character type, 401 null-terminated multibyte, 406 sizeof, 29 type of, 28 string literal, see literal, string string-literal, 27, 1165 stringize, see # struct standard-layout, 205 struct class versus, 204 structure, 204 structure tag, see class name student_t_distribution probability density function, 925 1263
c ISO/IEC
sub-expression, 1050 subobject, see also object model, 7 subscripting operator overloaded, 297 subsequence rule overloading, 292 subtract_with_carry_engine carry, 901 generation algorithm, 901 state, 901 textual representation, 902 transition algorithm, 901 subtraction implementation defined pointer, 114 subtraction operator, 113 suffix E, 27 e, 27 F, 27 f, 27 L, 24, 27 l, 24, 27 U, 24 u, 24 summary x C++ 2003, 1192 compatibility with ISO C, 1184 swappable, 412 swappable with, 411 switch and handler, 377 and try block, 377 synchronize with, 12 synonym, 156 type name as, 138 syntax class member, 96 target object, 543 template, 303–376 definition of, 303 function, 356 member function, 316 primary, 323 template, 303 template parameter, 33 template-argument, 307, 1179 template-argument-list, 307, 1179 template-declaration, 303, 1178 template-id, 307, 1179 template-name, 307, 1179 Cross references
N3376
template-parameter, 304, 1179 template-parameter-list, 303, 1179 template name linkage of, 303 template parameter scope, 41 temporary, 244 constructor for, 245 destruction of, 245 destructor for, 245 elimination of, 244, 267 implementation-defined generation of, 244 order of destruction of, 245 terminate(), 385, 386 called, 379, 380, 383, 385 termination program, 59, 62 terminology pointer, 73 text-line, 387, 1180 textual representation discard_block_engine, 904 independent_bits_engine, 905 shuffle_order_engine, 906 subtract_with_carry_engine, 902 this, 85, 212 type of, 212 this pointer, see this thread, 11 thread of execution, 11 thread storage duration, 62 thread, blocked, 399 thread_local, 135 threads multiple, 11–14 throw, 377 throw-expression, 377, 1179 throwing, see exception handling, throwing timed mutex types, 1127 token, 20 alternative, 20 preprocessing, 19 token, 20, 1163 traceable pointer object, 65, 424 trailing-return-type, 172, 1175 trailing-type-specifier, 143, 1172 trailing-type-specifier-seq, 143, 1172 traits, 401 transfer ownership, 513 transform regular expression traits, 1095 transform 1264
c ISO/IEC
regular expression traits, 1051 transform_primaryl regular expression traits, 1096 transform_primary regular expression traits, 1095 transform_primaryl regular expression traits, 1051 TransformationTrait, 559 transition algorithm discard_block_engine, 903 independent_bits_engine, 904 linear_congruential_engine, 899 mersenne_twister_engine, 900 shuffle_order_engine, 905 subtract_with_carry_engine, 901 translate regular expression traits, 1095 translate regular expression traits, 1050 translate_nocase regular expression traits, 1095 translate_nocase regular expression traits, 1051 translation phases, 16–17 separate, see compilation, separate translation unit, 16 translation units, 56 translation-unit, 56, 1166 translation unit, 56 name and, 32 trigraph sequence, 16, 18 trivial types, 70 trivially copyable class, 204 trivially copyable types, 70 trivial class, 204 trivial class type, 108 trivial type, 108 truncation, 80 try, 377 try block, see exception handling, try block try-block, 377, 1179 tuple and pair, 476 type, 32, 69–74 arithmetic, 72 array, 72, 181 bitmask, 405 Boolean, 71 char, 71 char16_t, 72 Cross references
N3376
char32_t, 72 character, 71 character container, 399 class and, 204 compound, 72 const, 143 destination, 192 double, 72 dynamic, 2 enumerated, 73, 404, 405 enumeration underlying, 151 example of incomplete, 70 extended integer, 71 extended signed integer, 71 extended unsigned integer, 71 float, 72 floating point, 71 function, 72, 180, 181 fundamental, 71 sizeof, 71 incomplete, 34, 35, 38, 69, 78, 93–97, 99, 104– 106, 110, 119, 219 int, 71 integral, 71 long, 71 long double, 72 long long, 71 multi-level mixed pointer and pointer to member, 79 multi-level pointer to member, 79 over-aligned, 76 POD, 70 pointer, 72 polymorphic, 225 short, 71 signed char, 71 signed integer, 71 standard integer, 71 standard signed integer, 71 standard unsigned integer, 71 static, 4 trivially copyable, 69 underlying wchar_t, 72 unsigned, 71 unsigned char, 71 unsigned int, 71 unsigned long, 71 unsigned long long, 71 unsigned short, 71 unsigned integer, 71 void, 72 1265
c ISO/IEC
volatile, 143 wchar_t, 72 type generator, see template type specifier auto, 148 const, 144 elaborated, 148 simple, 145 volatile, 144 type-id, 173, 1176 type-id-list, 382, 1180 type-name, 145, 1173 type-parameter, 304, 1179 type-specifier bool, 145 wchar_t, 145 type-specifier, 143, 1172 type-specifier-seq, 143, 1172 type_info, 99 typedef function, 182 typedef overloading and, 274 typedef-name, 138, 1172 typeid, 99 construction and, 261 destruction and, 261 , 445 typename, 148 typename-specifier, 332, 1179 types implementation-defined, 404 implementation-defined exception, 424 type checking argument, 94 type conversion, explicit, see casting type name, 173 nested, 218 scope of, 218 type pun, 102 type specifier auto, 145 char, 145 char16_t, 145 char32_t, 145 decltype, 145, 147 double, 145 elaborated, 54 enum, 148 float, 145 int, 145 Cross references
N3376
long, 145 short, 145 signed, 145 unsigned, 145 void, 145 volatile, 145 ud-suffix, 30, 1166 unary function, 544 unary operator overloaded, 296 unary-expression, 104, 1168 unary-operator, 104, 1168 UnaryTypeTrait, 559 unary operator interpretation of, 296 unblock, 401 uncaught_exception(), 386 undefined, 401, 419–421, 936, 938, 941–944, 948, 952, 976 undefined behavior, see behavior, undefined, 832 underlying type, 72 unevaluated operand, 84 unexpected(), 384, 386 called, 383 Unicode required set, 397 uniform distributions, 911–913 uniform random number generator requirements, 889–890 uniform_int_distribution discrete probability function, 911 uniform_real_distribution probability density function, 912 union standard-layout, 205 union, 73, 214 class versus, 204 anonymous, 215 global anonymous, 215 unique pointer, 513 unit translation, 409, 419 universal character name, 16 universal-character-name, 18, 1162 unnamed-namespace-definition, 153, 1174 unordered associative containers, 719–793 begin, 727 bucket, 727 bucket_count, 727 bucket_size, 727 cbegin, 727 1266
c ISO/IEC
cend, 727 clear, 726 complexity, 719 const_local_iterator, 721 count, 727 end, 727 equal_range, 727 equality function, 720 equivalent keys, 720, 784, 790 erase, 726 exception safety, 729 find, 726 hash function, 720 hash_function, 724 hasher, 721 insert, 725, 726 iterator invalidation, 729 iterators, 728 key_eq, 724 key_equal, 721 key_type, 720 lack of comparison operators, 719 load_factor, 728 local_iterator, 721 max_bucket_count, 727 max_load_factor, 728 rehash, 728 requirements, 719, 720, 729 unique keys, 720, 779, 787 unordered_map element access, 783 unique keys, 779 unordered_multimap equivalent keys, 784 unordered_multiset equivalent keys, 790 unordered_set unique keys, 787 unqualified-id, 85, 1167 unsequenced, 10 unsigned typedef and, 135 unsigned-suffix, 24, 1164 unsigned integer type, 71 unspecified, 440, 441, 445, 862, 1026, 1206, 1208 unspecified behavior, see behavior, unspecified, 942 unwinding stack, 380 uppercase, 406, 419 user-defined literal, see literal, user defined overloaded, 299 Cross references
N3376
user-defined-character-literal, 30, 1166 user-defined-floating-literal, 30, 1166 user-defined-integer-literal, 30, 1166 user-defined-literal, 30, 1166 user-defined-string-literal, 30, 1166 user-provided, 188 Uses-allocator construction, 505 using-declaration, 156–162 using-declaration, 156, 1174 using-directive, 162–164 using-directive, 162, 1174 usual arithmetic conversions, see conversion, usual arithmetic valid, 37 valid but unspecified state, 401 value, 69 call by, 94 null member pointer, 81 null pointer, 80 undefined unrepresentable integral, 80 value category, 75 value computation, 10–11, 13, 14, 97, 108, 117, 119, 120, 245 value representation, 69 value-initialization, 191 variable, 32 indeterminate uninitialized, 190 virt-specifier, 208, 1177 virt-specifier-seq, 208, 1177 virtual base class, 221 virtual function, 225–229 pure, 229, 230 virtual function call, 229 constructor and, 260 destructor and, 260 undefined pure, 230 visibility, 42 visible, 42 void* type, 73 void&, 177 volatile, 73 constructor and, 212, 243 destructor and, 212, 249 implementation-defined, 145 overloading and, 275 waiting function, 1147 wchar_t, 25, 28, 641 implementation-defined, 72 1267
c ISO/IEC
N3376
weak result type, 543 weibull_distribution probability density function, 919 weights discrete_distribution, 926 piecewise_constant_distribution, 928 weights at boundaries piecewise_linear_distribution, 930 well-formed program, see program, well-formed white space, 20 wide-character, 25 X(X&), see copy constructor xvalue, 74 zero division by undefined, 83 remainder undefined, 83 undefined division by, 113 zero-initialization, 190
Cross references
1268
c ISO/IEC
N3376
Index of grammar productions The first page number for each entry is the page in the general text where the grammar production is defined. The second page number is the corresponding page in the Grammar summary (Annex A). abstract-declarator, 173, 1176 abstract-pack-declarator, 173, 1176 access-specifier, 219, 1178 additive-expression, 113, 1169 alias-declaration, 133, 1171 alignment-specifier, 167, 1174 and-expression, 116, 1169 asm-definition, 164, 1174 assignment-expression, 119, 1170 assignment-operator, 119, 1170 attribute, 168, 1174 attribute-argument-clause, 168, 1175 attribute-declaration, 133, 1171 attribute-list, 168, 1174 attribute-namespace, 168, 1175 attribute-scoped-token, 168, 1175 attribute-specifier, 167, 1174 attribute-specifier-seq, 167, 1174 attribute-token, 168, 1175 balanced-token, 168, 1175 balanced-token-seq, 168, 1175 base-clause, 219, 1177 base-specifier, 219, 1178 base-specifier-list, 219, 1178 base-type-specifier, 219, 1178 block-declaration, 133, 1171 boolean-literal, 29, 1166 brace-or-equal-initializer, 190, 1176 braced-init-list, 190, 1177 c-char, 25, 1164 c-char-sequence, 25, 1164 capture, 88, 1167 capture-default, 88, 1167 capture-list, 88, 1167 cast-expression, 111, 1169 character-literal, 25, 1164 class-head, 204, 1177 class-head-name, 204, 1177 class-key, 204, 1177 class-name, 204, 1177 class-or-decltype, 219, 1178 Cross references
class-specifier, 204, 1177 class-virt-specifier, 204, 1177 compound-statement, 124, 1170 condition, 125, 1170 conditional-expression, 117, 1170 constant-expression, 120, 1170 control-line, 387, 1180 conversion-declarator, 248, 1178 conversion-function-id, 248, 1178 conversion-type-id, 248, 1178 ctor-initializer, 255, 1178 cv-qualifier, 173, 1175 cv-qualifier-seq, 173, 1175 d-char, 27, 1166 d-char-sequence, 27, 1166 decimal-literal, 23, 1164 decl-specifier, 134, 1172 decl-specifier-seq, 135, 1172 declaration, 133, 1171 declaration-seq, 133, 1171 declaration-statement, 130, 1171 declarator, 172, 1175 declarator-id, 173, 1176 decltype-specifier, 145, 1173 delete-expression, 109, 1169 digit, 21, 1163 digit-sequence, 27, 1165 dynamic-exception-specification, 382, 1180 elaborated-type-specifier, 148, 1173 elif-group, 387, 1180 elif-groups, 387, 1180 else-group, 387, 1180 empty-declaration, 133, 1171 encoding-prefix, 27, 1165 endif-line, 387, 1180 enum-base, 150, 1173 enum-head, 149, 1173 enum-key, 150, 1173 enum-name, 149, 1173 enum-specifier, 149, 1173 enumerator, 150, 1173 1269
c ISO/IEC
enumerator-definition, 150, 1173 enumerator-list, 150, 1173 equality-expression, 116, 1169 escape-sequence, 25, 1165 exception-declaration, 377, 1179 exception-specification, 382, 1180 exclusive-or-expression, 117, 1169 explicit-instantiation, 349, 1179 explicit-specialization, 351, 1179 exponent-part, 26, 1165 expression, 120, 1170 expression-list, 93, 1168 expression-statement, 124, 1170 extension-namespace-definition, 153, 1174 floating-literal, 26, 1165 floating-suffix, 27, 1165 for-init-statement, 126, 1171 for-range-declaration, 126, 1171 for-range-initializer, 126, 1171 fractional-constant, 26, 1165 function-definition, 187, 1176 function-specifier, 137, 1172 function-try-block, 377, 1179 group, 387, 1180 group-part, 387, 1180 h-char, 20, 1163 h-char-sequence, 20, 1163 handler, 377, 1179 handler-seq, 377, 1179 header-name, 20, 1163 hex-quad, 17, 1162 hexadecimal-digit, 23, 1164 hexadecimal-escape-sequence, 25, 1165 hexadecimal-literal, 23, 1164 id-expression, 85, 1166 identifier, 21, 1163 identifier-list, 388, 1181 identifier-nondigit, 21, 1163 if-group, 387, 1180 if-section, 387, 1180 inclusive-or-expression, 117, 1169 init-declarator, 172, 1175 init-declarator-list, 172, 1175 initializer, 190, 1176 initializer-clause, 190, 1176 initializer-list, 190, 1177 integer-literal, 23, 1164 Cross references
N3376
integer-suffix, 23, 1164 iteration-statement, 126, 1170 jump-statement, 129, 1171 labeled-statement, 124, 1170 lambda-capture, 88, 1167 lambda-declarator, 88, 1167 lambda-expression, 88, 1167 lambda-introducer, 88, 1167 linkage-specification, 165, 1174 literal, 23, 1164 literal-operator-id, 299, 1178 logical-and-expression, 117, 1169 logical-or-expression, 117, 1170 long-long-suffix, 24, 1164 long-suffix, 24, 1164 lparen, 388, 1181 mem-initializer, 255, 1178 mem-initializer-id, 255, 1178 mem-initializer-list, 255, 1178 member-declaration, 208, 1177 member-declarator, 208, 1177 member-declarator-list, 208, 1177 member-specification, 207, 1177 multiplicative-expression, 113, 1169 named-namespace-definition, 153, 1174 namespace-alias, 156, 1174 namespace-alias-definition, 156, 1174 namespace-body, 153, 1174 namespace-definition, 153, 1174 namespace-name, 152, 1174 nested-name-specifier, 87, 1167 new-declarator, 106, 1168 new-expression, 106, 1168 new-initializer, 106, 1169 new-line, 388, 1181 new-placement, 106, 1168 new-type-id, 106, 1168 noexcept-expression, 110, 1169 noexcept-specification, 382, 1180 non-directive, 388, 1180 nondigit, 21, 1163 nonzero-digit, 23, 1164 noptr-abstract-declarator, 173, 1176 noptr-abstract-pack-declarator, 173, 1176 noptr-declarator, 172, 1175 noptr-new-declarator, 106, 1169 octal-digit, 23, 1164 1270
c ISO/IEC
octal-escape-sequence, 25, 1165 octal-literal, 23, 1164 opaque-enum-declaration, 150, 1173 operator, 296, 1178 operator-function-id, 296, 1178 original-namespace-definition, 153, 1174 original-namespace-name, 153, 1174 parameter-declaration, 181, 1176 parameter-declaration-clause, 181, 1176 parameter-declaration-list, 181, 1176 parameters-and-qualifiers, 172, 1175 pm-expression, 112, 1169 pointer-literal, 29, 1166 postfix-expression, 93, 1168 pp-number, 21, 1163 pp-tokens, 388, 1181 preprocessing-file, 387, 1180 preprocessing-op-or-punc, 23, 1163 preprocessing-token, 19, 1162 primary-expression, 85, 1166 pseudo-destructor-name, 93, 1168 ptr-abstract-declarator, 173, 1176 ptr-declarator, 172, 1175 ptr-operator, 173, 1175 pure-specifier, 208, 1177 q-char, 21, 1163 q-char-sequence, 21, 1163 qualified-id, 87, 1167 qualified-namespace-specifier, 156, 1174 r-char, 27, 1166 r-char-sequence, 27, 1165 raw-string, 27, 1165 ref-qualifier, 173, 1175 relational-expression, 115, 1169 replacement-list, 388, 1181 s-char, 27, 1165 s-char-sequence, 27, 1165 selection-statement, 125, 1170 shift-expression, 114, 1169 sign, 27, 1165 simple-declaration, 133, 1171 simple-escape-sequence, 25, 1165 simple-template-id, 307, 1179 simple-type-specifier, 145, 1173 statement, 124, 1170 statement-seq, 124, 1170 static_assert-declaration, 133, 1171 Cross references
N3376
storage-class-specifier, 135, 1172 string-literal, 27, 1165 template-argument, 307, 1179 template-argument-list, 307, 1179 template-declaration, 303, 1178 template-id, 307, 1179 template-name, 307, 1179 template-parameter, 304, 1179 template-parameter-list, 303, 1179 text-line, 387, 1180 throw-expression, 377, 1179 token, 20, 1163 trailing-return-type, 172, 1175 trailing-type-specifier, 143, 1172 trailing-type-specifier-seq, 143, 1172 translation-unit, 56, 1166 try-block, 377, 1179 type-id, 173, 1176 type-id-list, 382, 1180 type-name, 145, 1173 type-parameter, 304, 1179 type-specifier, 143, 1172 type-specifier-seq, 143, 1172 typedef-name, 138, 1172 typename-specifier, 332, 1179 ud-suffix, 30, 1166 unary-expression, 104, 1168 unary-operator, 104, 1168 universal-character-name, 18, 1162 unnamed-namespace-definition, 153, 1174 unqualified-id, 85, 1167 unsigned-suffix, 24, 1164 user-defined-character-literal, 30, 1166 user-defined-floating-literal, 30, 1166 user-defined-integer-literal, 30, 1166 user-defined-literal, 30, 1166 user-defined-string-literal, 30, 1166 using-declaration, 156, 1174 using-directive, 162, 1174 virt-specifier, 208, 1177 virt-specifier-seq, 208, 1177
1271
c ISO/IEC
N3376
Index of library names , 593 _Exit, 438 __alignas_is_defined, 454 __bool_true_false_are_defined, 453, 454 _1, 552 a cauchy_distribution, 924 extreme_value_distribution, 920 uniform_int_distribution, 912 uniform_real_distribution, 913 weibull_distribution, 920 abort, 62, 129, 408, 438, 444, 449 abs, 945, 957 complex, 884 accumulate, 954 acos, 945, 957 complex, 885 acosh, 957 complex, 885 address allocator, 508, 509 addressof, 511 adjacent_difference, 955 adjacent_find, 849 advance, 815 , 837 align, 504 all bitset, 496 all_of, 847 allocate allocator, 509 allocator_traits, 507 scoped_allocator_adaptor, 596 allocate_shared, 530 allocator, 1082 allocator, 508 address, 508, 509 allocate, 509 constructor, 509 deallocate, 509 destructor, 509 max_size, 509 operator!=, 509 Cross references
operator==, 509 allocator_arg, 504 allocator_arg_t, 504 allocator_traits, 505 allocate, 507 const_pointer, 506 const_void_pointer, 506 constructor, 507 deallocate, 507 destructor, 507 difference_type, 506 max_size, 507 pointer, 506 propagate_on_container_copy_assignment, 506 propagate_on_container_move_assignment, 507 propagate_on_container_swap, 507 rebind_alloc, 507 select_on_container_copy_construction, 507 size_type, 506 void_pointer, 506 alpha gamma_distribution, 919 always_noconv codecvt, 667 any bitset, 496 any_of, 847 append basic_string, 622, 623 apply valarray, 942 arg, 887 complex, 884 , 729 array, 731, 733 begin, 731 data, 733 end, 731 fill, 733 get, 734 max_size, 731 size, 731, 733
1272
c ISO/IEC
swap, 733 asin, 945, 957 complex, 885 asinh, 957 complex, 885 , 409 assign deque, 737 list, 749 basic_regex, 1069 basic_string, 623, 624 deque, 737 error_code, 466 error_condition, 469 forward_list, 742 function, 557 list, 750 vector, 756 async, 1156 at basic_string, 621 map, 767 unordered_map, 783 at_quick_exit, 438, 439 atan, 945, 957 complex, 885 atan2, 945, 957 atanh, 957 complex, 885 atexit, 61, 408, 438 , 1097 atomic type atomic_compare_exchange_strong, 1109 atomic_compare_exchange_strong_explicit, 1109 atomic_compare_exchange_weak, 1109 atomic_compare_exchange_weak_explicit, 1109 atomic_exchange, 1109 atomic_exchange_explicit, 1109 atomic_fetch_, 1111 atomic_is_lock_free, 1108 atomic_load, 1109 atomic_load_explicit, 1109 atomic_store, 1108 atomic_store_explicit, 1108 compare_exchange_strong, 1109 compare_exchange_strong_explicit, 1109 compare_exchange_weak, 1109 compare_exchange_weak_explicit, 1109 constructor, 1107, 1108 Cross references
N3376
exchange, 1109 fetch_, 1111 load, 1109 operator @=, 1111 operator C , 1109 operator++, 1111 operator--, 1111, 1112 operator=, 1108 store, 1108 atomic_compare_exchange_strong atomic type, 1109 shared_ptr, 538 atomic_compare_exchange_strong_explicit atomic type, 1109 shared_ptr, 538 atomic_compare_exchange_weak atomic type, 1109 shared_ptr, 538 atomic_compare_exchange_weak_explicit atomic type, 1109 shared_ptr, 538 atomic_exchange atomic type, 1109 shared_ptr, 538 atomic_exchange_explicit atomic type, 1109 shared_ptr, 538 atomic_fetch_ atomic type, 1111 atomic_flag clear, 1113 atomic_flag_clear, 1113 atomic_flag_clear_explicit, 1113 atomic_flag_test_and_set, 1112 atomic_flag_test_and_set_explicit, 1112 atomic_is_lock_free atomic type, 1108 shared_ptr, 537 atomic_load atomic type, 1109 shared_ptr, 537 atomic_load_explicit atomic type, 1109 shared_ptr, 537 atomic_signal_fence, 1113 atomic_store atomic type, 1108 shared_ptr, 537 atomic_store_explicit atomic type, 1108 shared_ptr, 537 1273
c ISO/IEC
atomic_thread_fence, 1113 auto_ptr, 528, 1218 auto_ptr, 1219 auto_ptr_ref, 1220 constructor, 1219, 1220 destructor, 1220 operator=, 1219 auto_ptr_ref auto_ptr, 1220 operator auto_ptr, 1220 operator=, 1220 b cauchy_distribution, 924 extreme_value_distribution, 921 uniform_int_distribution, 912 uniform_real_distribution, 913 weibull_distribution, 920 back basic_string, 621 back_insert_iterator, 821 back_insert_iterator, 821 back_inserter, 822 bad basic_ios, 981 bad_alloc, 108, 440, 443, 444 bad_alloc, 444 bad_alloc::what implementation-defined, 444 bad_array_new_length, 444 bad_array_new_length, 444 bad_cast, 98, 445, 446 bad_cast, 446 bad_cast::what implementation-defined, 446 bad_exception, 449 bad_exception, 449 bad_exception::what implementation-defined, 449 bad_function_call, 553 bad_function_call, 553 bad_typeid, 99, 445, 447 bad_typeid, 447 bad_weak_ptr, 523 bad_weak_ptr, 524 what, 524 base move_iterator, 826 reverse_iterator, 818 basic_filebuf, 962, 1034 basic_filebuf, 1035 Cross references
N3376
constructor, 1035 destructor, 1036 operator=, 1036 swap, 1036 basic_filebuf, 1033 basic_filebuf, 1033 basic_fstream, 962, 1045 basic_fstream, 1046 constructor, 1046 operator=, 1046 swap, 1046 basic_ifstream, 962, 1040 basic_ifstream, 1041 constructor, 1041 operator=, 1042 swap, 1042 basic_ifstream, 1033 basic_ifstream, 1033 basic_ios, 962, 977 basic_ios, 978 constructor, 978 destructor, 978 exceptions, 982 fill, 979 init, 978 move, 980 rdbuf, 979 set_rdbuf, 980 swap, 980 tie, 979 basic_ios, 967 basic_ios, 967 basic_iostream, 1008 basic_iostream, 1009 constructor, 1009 destructor, 1009 operator=, 1009 swap, 1009 basic_istream, 962, 996 basic_istream, 998 constructor, 998 destructor, 998, 1000 get, 1003, 1004, 1008 operator